Lewis Redner
Template:Short description Lewis Henry Redner (December 15, 1831, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – August 29, 1908, Hotel Marlborough, Atlantic City, New Jersey) was an American musician, best known as the composer of the popular Christmas carol "St. Louis", better known as "O Little Town of Bethlehem".
Redner worked in the real-estate business in Philadelphia, and played the organ at four different churches during his life. He held the title of Organist/Choirmaster at the Church of the Holy Trinity, Philadelphia 1861-1864 and 1869-1871[1] While there, he set Pastor Phillips Brooks's poem of his recollection of a pilgrimage to Bethlehem to music on Christmas Eve, 1868, and the carol was first sung the next day.
Redner was very involved with local charities. He served on the first board of Sunday Breakfast Rescue Mission, a homeless shelter and soup kitchen, in 1878.[2]
Redner never married. He was buried at The Woodlands Cemetery in Philadelphia.
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- Free scores by Lewis H. Redner at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
- Free scores by Lewis Redner in the Choral Public Domain Library (ChoralWiki)
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- 1831 births
- 1908 deaths
- American male composers
- American composers
- American male organists
- Songwriters from Pennsylvania
- Musicians from Philadelphia
- Burials at The Woodlands Cemetery
- 19th-century American male musicians
- American male songwriters
- 19th-century American organists