Charles Crozat Converse
American attorney and composer
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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Works
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- 12 Songs: What a Friend
- Hvilken venn vi har i Jesus
- What a Friend We Have in Congress
- What a Friend We Have in Jesus
- When This Lousy War Is Over
- 星の界