Charles Crozat Converse

Charles Crozat Converse (October 7, 1832 - October 18, 1918) was a United States attorney who also worked as a composer of church songs. He was born in Warren, Massachusetts. He is notable for setting to music the words of Joseph Scriven to become the hymn "What a Friend We Have in Jesus".^[1] Converse also published an arrangement of "The Death of Minnehaha", with words by Longfellow.^[2] He studied law and music in Leipzig, Germany, returned home in 1857, and was graduated at the Albany Law School in 1861. Many of his musical compositions appeared under the anagrammatic pen-names “C. O. Nevers,” “Karl Reden,” and “E. C. Revons.” He published a cantata (1855), New Method for the Guitar (1855), Musical Bouquet (1859), The One Hundred and Twenty-sixth Psalm (1860), Sweet Singer (1863), Church Singer (1863) and Sayings of Sages (1863).^[3] Converse proposed the use of the gender-neutral pronoun, "Thon".

References

1. ^ "Charles Crozat Converse". The Cyber Hymnnal. http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/c/o/n/converse_cc.htm. Retrieved July 25, 2009. 
2. ^ Cornelius, pg. 9
3. ^  "Converse, Charles Crozat". Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. 1900. 

• Cornelius, Steven (2004). Music of the Civil War Era. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 0313320810. 

External Links

• Sheet music for "The Rock Beside the Sea", by Charles C. Converse, Lee & Walker, 1857.

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Name	Converse, Charles Crozat
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Short description	United States attorney and composer
Date of birth	October 7, 1832
Place of birth
Date of death	October 18, 1918
Place of death