Once in Royal David’s City

Name: Once in Royal David’s City
Duration: 2 min 51 s

Appears on releases

#	Title	Length	Track artist	Release title	Release artist	Release group type	Country/Date	Label	Catalog#
Official
1.2	Once in Royal David's City	2:51	Henry John Gauntlett	The Classical Collection: Christmas: A Celebration in Music	Bach, Mozart, Corelli, Albinoni, Bayer, Gounod	Album + Compilation	GB1992	Orbis (UK subsidiary publishing imprint of De Agostini Group)	CC C XMAS
1.2	Once in Royal David's City	2:51	Henry John Gauntlett	Muzyka Mistrzow: Muzyka na Boże Narodzenie	Albinoni, Bach, Bayer, Corelli, Gounod, Mozart	Album + Compilation	PL1997	Point Classics (imprint either includes a red ink splotch or a conductor's silhouette)
2.16	Once in Royal David’s City	2:52	The Bangor City Cantata Singers	Simply Christmas	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	GB2005-09-12	Union Square Music
1.14	Once in Royal David's City (a)	2:48	[unknown]	The Spirit of Christmas	Various Artists	Other	US-	KPM Music (“KPM Music Recorded Library”, cat prefix KPM)	KPM 86

recording of:	Once in Royal David’s City

lyricist:	Cecil Frances Alexander (in 1848)
composer:	Henry John Gauntlett (in 1849)

later parody versions:	Once in Every Carol Service
later translated versions:	Draw yn Ninas Dafydd Frenin I Kong Davids by I Kong Davids stad eingong
is the basis for:	Once in Royal David's City (descant and organ arr. Philip Ledger) Prelude on "Irby" ("Once in Royal David’s City")
has revision:	Once in Royal David’s City (arr. Mann)
arrangements:	Once in Royal David's City (arr. Ferguson) Once in Royal David's City (arr. Wilcocks (vv. 2-3) and Mann (v. 4ff)) Once in Royal David’s City (arr. Rutter) Once in Royal David’s City (arr. Willcocks)
music quoted in:	Song for the King