Thompson, Will L(amartine)
Thompson, Will L(amartine)
Thompson, Will L(amartine), American music publisher and composer; b. Beaver County, Pa., Nov. 7, 1847; d. N.Y., Sept. 20, 1909. He studied at the Boston School of Music, the Boston Cons, of Music, and the Leipzig Cons. (1870-75), and then settled in East Liverpool, Ohio, where he founded his own music publishing firm. He wrote some 100 songs, both sacred and secular, perhaps his best-known song being the hymn Softly and Tenderly Jesus Is Calling. He ed. and publ. Thompson’s Popular Anthems (1894), The New Century Hymnal (1904), and Enduring Hymns (1908).
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