New-York tribune., 1901-05-19

tunes and Ice able to play them in any key the
officiating minister might start them. it being
the custom for the minister To begin singing
without announcement. leaving the organist and
congregation 10 join in as soon as they could
catch the words and tune
MUSICAL CLERGYMEN
The clergy. too. as has already been shown.
took part in that earlier day in the towns music
making. secular as well religious. In a list
OF men actively concerned with music from the
foundation Of the community up to 1870 pre-
pared by Mr.. Grider there are the names Of
six bishops and twenty-one ministers. The
clergy. whether bishops or presbyters. met once
or twice week on a level with their laymen. to
practise in the concert room. One Of the works
in the repertory of the old Philharmonic So
ciety oratorio entitled The Seven Sleep
ers.' composed by the great German balladist
Loewe and lased the Old legend Of the seven
early Christian brothers who took refuge in
cave from the prosecutions Of Decius and slept
ia years, awakening to find a Christian en-
ptror on the throne. In a performance cf the
oIatCrio in 1H;;7 il thought To be particu-
larly approl riate that the part OF the Bishop Of
Ephesus should have been taken by Bishop
John q. Herman, Of the MoraViaa Church. The
list Of episcopal and clerical musicians Is inter
esting enough 10 be presented here: Bishops
Christian Grescr, composer: Jacob Van Week.
conductor and organist; John Daniel Anders,
p.anofo:te player; Peter Wolfe composer, or
ganist. violinist and singer; John C. Herman,
violoncellist and singer; John c. Jacobson, yio-
loncellist. Ministers Emanuel Witschman, con
ductor viol.nist and violoncel!.st; John Gam
bod. composer: John q. Culow. composer and
organist; John F. Truhaun. organisi and plan
ist; Paul ". Weiss, fiutist; Theodore Schultz,
fluiist: Charles +. Seidel organ-t and singer;
Sebastian Oppeit, violonceist and singer Peter
Ricksecker composer, Crgan.st and violinist.
Samuel r. Huebner singer John {. Brcken-
stein. singer; George Il. Miller, composer.
ganist and singer Levin T. Reichel singer,
julius Becher. singer Sylvester Wolfe singer;
r r Hagen. composer and violinist; John II.
Ebermann. violinist; Lewis r. HuebneT, singer;
Edward Kluge. singer, and Edwin @. klos-,
singer.
50 far Is the cultivation Of church music.
Instrumental as Well a vocal, is concerned.
there was nothing out of the ordinary in the
early zeal Of the Bethl=hen unity. The No
rayian church. or brotherhood. was but re-
Generation Of the old Hussite Church Of Bo-
harnia and bohemia has history in hymnoiosy
which is much older than the Reformation ac-
cornp!ished by Martin Luther. ia fact. il fur
nieb.d th,. example for the creation Of that
feature in the Protestant Church which Luther's
,,,,r-,ias confessed tley dreaded more than his
serraors-tha congregational h--Enns- Luther
not en,v followed his Bohemian predecessors in
futroducfrg hymns into the church service for
the peoule. but he translated some % the hGss-
ite hymns and incorporated them in his hymn
hook. Count Zinzendorf followed the example
of many i.IustTi5us sc-tarian zsalJts when lac
sought TO Trorarata his cvaneei through h"
writing e hymns. lie had striking cXenpiar
refore him from childhood n the person of the
a,ar.ir-sther who brought him Up. She VAS tbs
F:3rouees Won Cersdorf. a woman Of remarkable
talents and famous writer Of German hymns
The count heg4n writing hymns when he was
twelve years old ana continued il for nearly
fifty wears ceasing only five days before he d.ed.
in l7Ga Ia this time n wrote two thousand
hymns. nearly all Of which have long ago fallen
into desuetule.
ADAM DRESSES HYMN.
Il is interesting to note, however. that it was