1855-1933

Sep­tem­ber 15, 1855, Neu­en­heim, Ger­ma­ny.

Au­gust 3, 1933, Phil­a­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia.

portrait

Though blind­ed by an eye in­fect­ion at age eight, Gei­bel was a suc­cess­ful com­pos­er, con­duct­or, and or­gan­ist. Em­i­grat­ing from Ger­ma­ny prob­ab­ly around 1864, he stu­died at the Phil­a­del­phia In­sti­tute for the Blind, and wrote a num­ber of Gos­pel songs, an­thems, can­ta­tas, etc. He found­ed the Ad­am Gei­bel Mu­sic Com­pa­ny, lat­er evolved in­to the Hall-Mack Com­pa­ny, and lat­er merged to be­come the Ro­de­heav­er Hall-Mack Com­pa­ny. He was well known for sec­u­lar songs like Ken­tuc­ky Babe and Sleep, Sleep, Sleep. In 1885, Gei­bel or­gan­ized the J. B. Stet­son Mis­sion. He con­duct­ed the Stet­son Chor­us of Phil­a­del­phia, and from 1884-1901, was a mu­sic in­struc­tor at the Penn­syl­van­ia In­sti­tu­tion for the In­struc­tion of the Blind. His works in­clude:

  1. As We March Be­neath His Ban­ner
  2. Beautiful Wa­ters of Eden
  3. Bethesda
  4. Blessèd Book, The
  5. Caridad
  6. Carry the Light
  7. Dugdale
  8. Easter Bells
  9. El Co­bre
  10. Finger Lakes
  11. Glens Falls
  12. He’ll Drive All the Sha­dows Away
  13. I Be­long to Je­sus
  14. I Love to Think of Je­sus
  15. Joyful Song, The
  16. Make Me More Like Je­sus
  17. Marching with the He­roes
  18. Mighty Con­quer­or, The
  19. Open Thy Heart
  20. Praise the Name of Christ
  21. Resignation
  22. Shout Forth the Tid­ings
  23. Sleep, My Lit­tle Je­sus
  24. Some Day He’ll Make It Plain
  25. Someone Must Tell the Glad Sto­ry
  26. Songs of the King­dom
  27. Stand Up for Je­sus
  28. Sverdrup
  29. We Ral­ly To­day
Gei­bel’s bur­i­al place