Hark the herald angels sing : Christmas hymn / adapted and arranged by William H. Cummings to the music of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy.

Record ID: 
113772
Creator: 
Cummings, William Hayman, 1831-1915, arranger.
Title: 
Hark the herald angels sing : Christmas hymn / adapted and arranged by William H. Cummings to the music of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy.
Uniform title: 
Hark! the herald angels sing
Published: 
London : J.J. Ewer, [1855?]
Notes: 

For chorus.
The music is adapted and arranged from the second movement of Mendelssohn's Festgesang ("Vaterland, in deinen Gauen"); the English words are mostly by Charles Wesley, with changes by George Whitefield and others.
Advertisement: p. [8].
Alternative 1st ed.; another was also published in London in 1855, but without the advertisement on p. [8].
The pages are misbound in the order: 5-6, 3-4, 7.

Associated names: 

Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix, 1809-1847.
Wesley, Charles, 1707-1788.

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