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Conrad Beissel was the founder and superintendent of the Ephrata Cloister, one of America’s earliest composers of hymns and anthems, the organizer and teacher of the cloister singing school, and the publisher of America’s first book of original compositions, Turtel-Taube, in 1747.
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Ephrata, Pennsylvania · United States
