A Collection of Sacred Hymns for the use of the Latter-Day Saints #17
Tune Title: [Who are these array'd in white] First Line: Who are these array'd in white Date: 1844
A Collection of Sacred Hymns for the use of the Latter-Day Saints #17

Samuel Webbe (the elder; b. London, England, 1740; d. London, 1816) Webbe's father died soon after Samuel was born without providing financial security for the family. Thus Webbe received little education and was apprenticed to a cabinetmaker at the age of eleven. However, he was determined to study and taught himself Latin, Greek, Hebrew, French, German, and Italian while working on his apprenticeship. He also worked as a music copyist and received musical training from Carl Barbant, organist at the Bavarian Embassy. Restricted at this time in England, Roman Catholic worship was freely permitted in the foreign embassies. Because Webbe was Roman Catholic, he became organist at the Portuguese Chapel and later at the Sardinian and Spanish… Go to person page >| Title: | BENEVENTO |
| Composer: | Samuel Webbe (1792) |
| Meter: | 7.7.7.7 D |
| Incipit: | 11113 21222 24323 |
| Key: | E Major |
| Copyright: | Public Domain |
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