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Franz Xaver Gruber
Franz Xaver Gruber
Austrian composer known for Silent Night
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George Ratcliffe Woodward
George Ratcliffe Woodward
English composer
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John Ireland
John Ireland
British composer and teacher of music
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Adolphe Adam
Adolphe Adam
French composer and music critic
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John Francis Wade
John Francis Wade
English hymnist
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Dudley Buck
Dudley Buck
American composer and organist
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John Rutter
John Rutter
British composer, conductor and arranger
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Michael Praetorius
Michael Praetorius
German composer, organist, and music theorist
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Mykola Leontovych
Mykola Leontovych
Composer, conductor, and teacher
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Rutland Boughton
Rutland Boughton
English composer of opera and choral music
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John Dunstaple
John Dunstaple
British composer
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John Stainer
John Stainer
British composer
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Healey Willan
Healey Willan
musician, composer, organist
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Christina Rossetti
Christina Rossetti
English poet
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Joseph Mohr
Joseph Mohr
Austrian priest and composer
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Alec Rowley
Alec Rowley
British composer
Lewis Redner
American musician, composer

Lewis Redner

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American musician, composer

Lewis Henry Redner (December 15, 1831, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – August 29, 1908, Hotel Marlborough, Atlantic City, New Jersey) was an American musician, best known as the composer of the popular Christmas carol "St. Louis", better known as "O Little Town of Bethlehem".

Redner worked in the real-estate business in Philadelphia, and played the organ at four different churches during his life. He spent 19 years as organist at the Church of the Holy Trinity, Philadelphia. While there, he set Pastor Phillips Brooks's poem of his recollection of a pilgrimage to Bethlehem to music on Christmas Eve, 1868, and the carol was first sung the next day.

Redner was very involved with local charities. He served on the first board of Sunday Breakfast Rescue Mission, a homeless shelter and soup kitchen, in 1878.

Redner never married. He was buried at The Woodlands Cemetery in Philadelphia.