Burrell Charles Van Buren

1884 - 1957 

Burrell Van Buren was widely known in Chicago for his ability to write and arrange popular music, beginning in about 1913 and continuing until the middle of the 1940s.

He became an Adventist during the 1930s and devoted the rest of his life to primarily writing sacred music. The Coming King, described as a musical sermon on the Second Advent, was a cantata written and performed by choirs at Adventist colleges in the 1950s. Other works by him included The Ten Commandments and The Remnant. He moved to Oregon in 1949 where he resided until his death eight years later.

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