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Wilhelm Schulthes
1816 - 1879
Germany
Wilhelm August Ferdinand [Wilhelm] Schulthes (09/09/1816 - 16/08/1879), a German composer, born in Hesse Cassel. Son of German army officer, Schulthes was raised as a Lutheran, but moved to Roman Catholicism around 1852. He directed the Brompton Oratory choir (1852-72), and taught music at the Convent of the Sacred Heart, Roehampton (1868-79).
Requiem
Requiem, words: Godfrey Thring (1823 - 1903). This hymn was written at the request of Prebendary Hutton of Lincoln, and was first published in Thring’s Supplement (Lincoln, England: 1871).
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