Composer

May Whittle Moody

1870–1963 · Chicago, Illinois · United States

Daughter of the evangelist and hymn writer Daniel Whittle, she studied at Oberlin and at the Royal Academy of Music in London before marrying Will Moody, son of D. L. Moody. On the organ in her Northfield home she composed tunes for her father's texts, among them Moment by Moment. Three of her four children died before the age of six.

Tune

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Lived

1870–1963

Hymnals

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