Julius Rontgen (1855 - 1932) Allemagne Julius Engelbert Röntgen (9 May 1855 – 13 September 1932) was a German-Dutch composer of classical music.
Julius Röntgen's works include 25 symphonies, concertos (7 piano concertos, 3 violin concertos, 3 cello concertos, other concertos), as well as numerous chamber, piano and vocal works. He also completed Grieg's unfinished String Quartet No. 2.
Röntgen also harmonized and arranged traditional Dutch melodies used as hymn tunes. One such hymn tune is entitled 'In Babilone'. It can be found as hymn number 325 'The United Methodist Hymnal' (C) 1989 The United Methodist Publishing House, Nashville, TN. In the Methodist hymnal his name is spelled Roentgen but the tune is the same and dates correlate with the time of his work. The same hymn tune can be found as hymn numbers 502, 508 and 649 in the 'Celebrating Grace' hymnal (C) 2010 Celebrating Grace, Inc, Macon, GA. (Hide extended text)...(Read all) Source : Wikipedia