Adam Geibel(1855-1933)
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Composer, songwriter ("Sleep"), conductor, organist, teacher and
publisher. Adam Geibel came to the United States and was
educated at the Pennsylvania Institute for the Blind in Philadelphia
(where he later would teach piano, violin, harmony and composition over
a seventeen-year career). He studied music with David Wood and earned
an honorary Music Degree from Temple University. Between 1885 and 1925
he was chief organist for the John Stetson Mission Sunday School, and
he founded a publishing company. Joining ASCAP, his chief
musical collaborators included Earl Burtnett and Richard Buck, and his
other popular-song and sacred compositions include "Kentucky Babe",
"Evening Bells", "The Nativity", "The Incarnation", "Light Out of
Darkness", "Stand Up, Stand Up for Jesus", "Some Day He'll Make It
Plain", and "Let the Gospel Light Shine Out".