George James Webb

George J ( ames ) Webb ( * June 24, 1803 in Rushmore Lodge in Salisbury / Wiltshire; † October 7, 1887 in Orange / New Jersey) was an American organist and composer.

Webb was first organist in the English Falmouth. In 1830 he went to Boston, where he was almost forty years organist at the Old South Church. In addition, he also served as organist at the Church of the New Jerusalem. With Lowell Mason in 1832, he founded the Boston Academy of Music. He composed several choral and organ works. In 1837 he published with Mason the songbook The Odeon: A Collection of Secular Melodies, the first time his most famous way WEBB Hymn contained here to the text Tis Dawn, The Lark Is Singing. In The Wesleyan Psalmist (1842 ) it was the text of The Morning Light Is Breaking highlighted, in 1861 appeared in New York Songbook The Golden Chain, she appeared in today's most common version with the text of the pastor George Duffield Stand Up, Stand Up For Jesus.