Charles Crozat Converse
Charles Crozat Converse (October 7, 1832 – October 18, 1918) was an American attorney who also worked as a composer of church songs. He is notable for setting to music the words of Joseph Scriven to become the hymn "What a Friend We Have in Jesus". Converse published an arrangement of "The Death of Minnehaha", with words by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
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Charles Crozat Converse
Some of the ancestors and descendants of Samuel Converse, jr. (vol. II) 1905 · Public domain
- Born
- October 7, 1832
- Birthplace
- Warren, Massachusetts, US
- Died
- October 18, 1918
- Place of death
- Englewood, New Jersey, US
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- composer · lawyer · writer
- Education
- Albany Law School · University of Music and Theatre Leipzig
- Known for
- The Death of Minnehaha
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Charles Crozat Converse (October 7, 1832 – October 18, 1918) was an American attorney who also worked as a composer of church songs. He is notable for setting to music the words of Joseph Scriven to become the hymn "What a Friend We Have in Jesus". Converse published an arrangement of "The Death of Minnehaha", with words by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
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• Notable Works — "What a Friend We Have in Jesus" • Born — October 7, 1832 • Birthplace — Warren, Massachusetts, US • Died — October 18, 1918 • Place of death — Englewood, New Jersey, US
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Charles Crozat Converse was born in Warren, Massachusetts on October 7, 1832. 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", "E. C. Revons", and "Lesta Vesé". 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). Converse proposed the use of the gender-neutral pronoun "thon". He died at his home in Englewood, New Jersey on October 18, 1918.
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Charles Crozat Converse died at Englewood.
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Charles Crozat Converse is recorded as having studied at Albany Law School and University of Music and Theatre Leipzig.
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- 1.Charles Crozat Converse, Website Find a Grave (2026, englisch, abgerufen am 10. Februar 2026)
- 2.John Perry: Charles C. Converse, Website hymnary.org (englisch, abgerufen am 9. Februar 2026)
- 3.Welch ein Freund ist unser Jesus, Website evangeliums.net (2004–2026, abgerufen am 10. Februar 2026)
- 4.Don Chapman: Charles Crozat Converse, Website hymndex.com (englisch, abgerufen am 10. Februar 2026)
- 5.Richard W. Adams: Charles Crozat Converse 1834–1918, Website hymntime.com (1996–2026, englisch, abgerufen am 10. Februar 2026)
- 6.John Perry: Charles C. Converse, Website hymnary.org (englisch, abgerufen am 9. Februar 2026)
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