Stanley Osborne

Stanley Llewellyn Osborne (born January 6, 1907 in Clarke Township , † December 7, 2000 in Oshawa ) was a Canadian clergyman , music educator , author , hymnologist and composer .

Osborne had music lessons in his youth with Rita Dudley and Gwendolyn Williams Koldofsky and later studied music theory with Frederick Horwood , piano with Viggo Kihl , orchestration with Ernest MacMillan , organ with Charles Peaker and Healey Willan at the University of Toronto . In addition, he completed 1929-23 a theology degree at Emmanuel College and was ordained in 1932 as a pastor of the Uniate Church. From 1948 to 1968 he was a principal of the Ontario Ladies' College .

He was co-editor of The Canadian Youth Hymnal (1939) and editor of the Music for Worship Collection (1947) and Jubilate Deo magazine (1956–59). In The Strain of Praise (1957) he presented his theses on church music. From 1968 he was the full-time secretary of the preparatory committee for The Mhymn Book (1971), published jointly by the Anglican and United Churches . In 1976 he published the book If such holy song ... The Story of the Hymns in the Hymn Book in 1971 .

In 1974, Osborne founded the Summer Institute of Church Music at Ontario Ladies' College and became its director. In 1986 he was honored as a Fellow of the Hymn Society of America . His own compositions include Salvator Mundi (1945), Night Hymns on Lake Nipigon (1982) and The Lord Is God (1983). In the last years of his life he published two prayer books: I Cry to Thee (1997) and I List to Thee (1998).

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• Stanley Osborne ( English, French ) In: Encyclopedia of Music in Canada . published by The Canadian Encyclopedia .