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Lina Sandell (full name: Karolina Wilhelmina Sandell-Berg) (3 October 1832 – 27 July 1903) was a Swedish poet and author of gospel hymns. [2] Background.
He published more than 60 poems, hymns, and gospel songs, [a] including a collaboration with Swedish hymnist Lina Sandell. [3] Of his works, "O store Gud" ('O Great God'), upon which "How Great Thou Art" is based, the best known. The song is a natural romantic description of God's creation, which in each chorus ends with the songwriter wanting ...
"Tryggare kan ingen vara" (English version: "Children of the Heavenly Father") is a Christian hymn with lyrics by Lina Sandell circa 1850, and published in 1855 Andeliga daggdroppar, where the writer was credited as anonymous. It was recorded by Carola Häggkvist in 1998 on the album Blott en dag. [1]
"Day by Day (and with Each Passing Moment)" is a Christian hymn written in 1865 by Lina Sandell several years after she had witnessed the tragic drowning death of her father. [1] It is a hymn of assurance used in American congregational singing. Sandell-Berg was a prolific Swedish hymn writer.
Fruängen (literally: Wife Meadow or Lady Meadow) is a district in Stockholm, Sweden. ... Kata Dalström, Kerstin Hesselgren, Lina Sandell and Jenny Lind. ...
Jesus för världen givit sitt liv is an 1889 Easter song with lyrics by Lina Sandell, and 1860 music by Fredrik August Ekström.According to Koralbok för Nya psalmer, 1921, the A tune is based on an English melody, and the B-tune a Fredrik August Ekström composition.
Ahnfelt composed the music for many of Lina Sandell's hymns.He was a pietist, who traveled all over Scandinavia, playing his 10-string guitar and singing her lyrics. The state church authorities did not like pietistic hymns and, anticipating a royal injunction against the singing of Sandell's songs, ordered Ahnfelt to sing them before King Karl XV.
Lina Sandell (1832–1903), Swedish hymn writer, wrote Tryggare kan ingen vara; Ellen G. White, co-founder and prophetess of the Seventh-day Adventist Church; Evangeline Booth, fourth General of the Salvation Army; Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861), English hymn writer and literary figure