Born in Iowa on 18 August 1856, died on 14 September 1932; Charles Hutchinson Gabriel was a composer of gospel songs. At the age of seventeen he began to hold singing classes and institutes in the United States; he later lived in California and then in Chicago. His first success with a sacred song was “Send the Light”, and his “Glory Song” became his most popular. His “Sketches of Living Gospel Hymn Writers” were published by the Rodeheaver Company in 1916, and “Sixty Years of Gospel Song” in 1930. On the gala recording Doc Heilein and Friends Gala 2023 – Ich will keine Schokolade (2023) Eva Schäfer and Leslie Jost sing “His Eye Is on the Sparrow”, for which he wrote the music to words by Civilla D. Martin; the song first appeared in 1905 in the collection “Revival Hymns”.
Charles H. Gabriel
Composer
