Adam Geibel

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Adam Geibel (born August 14, 1855 in Frankfurt am Main , † August 3, 1933 in Philadelphia ) was a German-American composer , songwriter , orchestra director, organist , music teacher and music publisher .

Life

Sheet music from Adam Geibel's song A Bunch of Wild Roses (1890)

Adam Geibel went blind at the age of eight as a result of an infection. After emigrating to the United States with his parents in 1862, he studied at the Philadelphia Institute for the Blind , worked as an organist and wrote a number of gospels , hymns and cantatas in the years that followed . He founded the Adam Geibel Music Company , which later became the Hall-Mack Company and Rodeheaver Hall-Mack Company . He also directed the Stetson Chorus of Philadelphia ; from 1884 to 1901 he was a teacher at the Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Blind .

With Richard Henry Buck he wrote Kentucky Babe (1896), which became one of his most popular songs and which, among other things, a. was covered by Noble Sissle (1928), Bing Crosby , The Chordettes , Maxine Sullivan , Dean Martin and Eddy Howard . With Earl Burtnett he wrote (under the common pseudonym Earl Lebieg ) " Sleep ".

Other well-known songs by Geibel, mostly sentimental Plantation songs , were "Sleep, My Little Jesus" (1882, with William C. Gannett), "Some Day He'll Make It Plain", "Row Boatman Row", "A Bunch of Wild" Roses ”(1890),“ Son of My Soul ”,“ My Maid of the Mountain ”(1893),“ Apple Seeds ”(1895, text: Richard H. Buck),“ Little Cotton Dolly ”(1897),“ South Carolina Tickle ”( Rag , 1898),“ Moonlight on the Ocean ”(1903),“ From Thy Lowest Depths Of Sea ”(1903, text by Joseph P. Link),“ Timbuctoo ”( An African Idyl , 1904),“ Gavotte Allemande ”(1908) and“ In the Hush of the Twilight Hour ”(1918).

Publications (selection)

  • Consecrated Hymns: For Use in Devotional Meetings, Young People's Societies, the Sunday School.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to other sources, he was born in Neuenheim . See Hymnary.org
  2. ↑ Don Tyler: Hit Songs, 1900-1955: American Popular Music of the Pre-Rock Era . Jefferson, North Carolina & London, McFarland, 2007
personal data
SURNAME Geibel, Adam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American composer, songwriter, orchestra leader, organist, music teacher and music publisher
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH August 3, 1933
Place of death Philadelphia