Josiah Booth

Life

Born: 27 March 1852

Died: 29 December 1929

Biography

Josiah Booth was born in Coventry, England, and studied at the Royal Academy of Music under Sir George A. Macfarren. He was organist of the Wesleyan Chapel, Banbury (1868-76), and the Park Congregational Church, Crouch End, London (1877-1918). He was musical editor for the 1888 Congregational Hymnal and musical consultant to the committee that compiled Congregational Hymnal in 1916. He was elected to the Royal Academy of Music in 1904.

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List of choral works

Sacred & Nationalistic works

• May Britain be by God preserved
• Thou crownest the year with Thy goodness

Secular works

• Autumn
• Blow, gentle breeze
• Hymn to the moon
• It was a lover and his lass

 

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External links

• Works by Josiah Booth in the Petrucci Music Library (IMSLP)