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Charles Crozat Converse
Person · male · United States · Warren · born 1832 · died 1918
American attorney and composer
Also known as C. L. Converse · Charles C. Converse · Charles C. Converse · チャールズ・コンヴァース
Timeline
2 events◦ Birth 1† Death 1
1830s
1910s
Biography
English biography170 words · 2 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1352479678
Biography
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.
Life
Charles Crozat Converse was born in Warren, Massachusetts on October 7, 1832. He studied law and music in Leipzig, Germany, returned home in 1857, and was graduated at the Albany Law School in 1861.
Many of his musical compositions appeared under the anagrammatic pen-names "C. O. Nevers", "Karl Reden", "E. C. Revons", and "Lesta Vesé".
He published a cantata (1855), New Method for the Guitar (1855), Musical Bouquet (1859), The One Hundred and Twenty-sixth Psalm (1860), Sweet Singer (1863), Church Singer (1863) and Sayings of Sages (1863).
Converse proposed the use of the gender-neutral pronoun "thon".
He died at his home in Englewood, New Jersey on October 18, 1918.
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
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| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 9 | 54.3th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 2 | 62.1th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
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Discography (0 release groups)
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Stats & PK
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| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 9 | 54.3th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 2 | 62.1th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Awards & honours
Where this record comes from
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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_Crozat_Converse_%281832%E2%80%931918%29.pngaliases/urls—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/a0e6bc5d-e09d-4256-b88f-5c542a3a4463discography—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/a0e6bc5d-e09d-4256-b88f-5c542a3a4463core—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q323458seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Crozat_Conversebiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Crozat_Converse
Why this artist is in the database
- List of composers by name
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Wikidata: Q323458 · MusicBrainz: a0e6bc5d-e09d-4256-b88f-5c542a3a4463
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