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Thomas Hastings 1784-1872, American composer, b. Washington, Conn. Of his hymns, Rock of Ages is most famous. He compiled several books of hymns, including Musica Sacra (1815) and Spiritual Songs (with Lowell Mason, 1831).

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Hastings, Thomas (1784–1872), born in Connecticut and reared in upstate New York, moved to New York City (1832), where he conducted church choirs, composed music and words for hymns, and compiled several hymn books. His first collection, Spiritual Songs for Social Worship (1931–32), was edited with Lowell Mason, and most of his original works were collected in Devotional Hymns and Religious Poems (1850), which includes his music for Toplady's Rock of Ages.
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