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Geibel, Adam, 1855-1933

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Personal name headingGeibel, Adam, 1855-1933
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Variant(s)Geible, Adam, 1855-1933
See alsoAlternate identity: Tyler, Walter G., 1855-1933
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Birth date1855-09-15
Death date1933-08-03
Place of birthNeuenheim (Heidelberg, Germany)
Place of deathPhiladelphia (Pa.)
Profession or occupationComposers Conductors (Music) Organists
Found inHis Kentucky babe, 1896: t.p. (Adam Geibel)
His Someday he'll make it plain [SR] 194-?: label (Adam Geible)
Claghorn, C.E. Biographical dict. of Amer. mus. (Geibel, Adam; b. 1855 near Frankfort-an-Main, Germany; d. 1933, Philadelphia, Pa.; popular composer)
Behold! A royal army title page (Adam Geibel)
cyberhymnal.org, via WWW, April 25, 2013 : (Adam Geibel, born in Germany in Neuenheim, September 15, 1855, died August 3, 1933 in Philadelphia. Though blinded by an eye infection at age eight, Geibel was a successful composer, conductor, and organist. He studied at the Philadelphia Institute for the blind, and wrote a number of Gospel songs, anthems, cantatas, etc. He founded the Adam Geibel Music company, later evolved into the Hall-Mack Company, and later merged to become the Rodeheaver Hall-Mack Company. His popular secular songs include "Kentucky Babe" and "Sleep, Sleep, Sleep")
Davidson, Karen Lynn. Our latter-day hymns, 2009: page 415 (Adam Geibel used pen name Walter G. Tyler)
Associated languageeng
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