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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 spent 19 years as organist at the Church of the Holy Trinity, Philadelphia. 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.[1]

Redner never married. He was buried at The Woodlands Cemetery in Philadelphia.

References

External links

• Works by or about Lewis Redner at Internet Archive
• Works by Lewis Redner at Project Gutenberg
• Lewis Redner at Find a Grave
• 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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[de] Lewis Redner

Lewis Henry Redner (* 15. Dezember 1831 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; † 29. August 1908 in Atlantic City, New Jersey) war ein amerikanischer Organist und Komponist. Sein bekanntestes Lied ist das Weihnachtslied St. Louis, bekannt als O Little Town of Bethlehem.

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- [en] Lewis Redner

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[ru] Реднер, Льюис

Льюис Генри Реднер (англ. Lewis Henry Redner; 15 декабря 1831, Филадельфия, Пенсильвания — 29 августа 1908, отель «Мальборо», Атлантик-Сити, Нью-Джерси) — американский музыкант-органист и композитор. Наибольшую известность из его работ получил рождественский хорал «O Little Town of Bethlehem» («О, малый город Вифлеем») на слова Филлипса Брукса. В 1970-е гг. хорал получил новую жизнь в аранжировке О. Питерсона.

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