Ye Are Come Unto Mount Sion

Description

Ye Are Come Unto Mount Sion

Hagen, Francis Florentine
(1815-1907)

Text: Hebrews 12:22-24

Edited by D. Keneth Fowler
from manuscripts in the Salem Congregation Collection

SATB
organ or piano

(flute, strings available)

MMFS0901

Francis Florentine Hagen (1815-1907) was born and grew up in Salem, North Carolina, and received theological training at the Moravian Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania. Though he was always devoted to music, he, like so many other Moravian composers, spent his professional life first as a teacher and then as pastor of several congregations. His musical style reflects eighteenth century Moravian roots blended with influences of later Romanticism. His compositions include anthems, an orchestral overture, solo songs, solo piano works, and both original compositions and arrangements for organ, many of which were published during his lifetime. He died at Lititz, Pennsylvania, on July 7, 1907.