Reid N. Nibley, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Reid N. Nibley

American musician

Date of Birth: 05-Jan-1923

Date of Death: 25-Feb-2008

Profession: composer, pianist, hymnwriter, music pedagogue

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Reid N. Nibley

  • Reid Neibaur Nibley (5 January 1923 – 25 February 2008) was an American pianist, composer and music educator.
  • He wrote the words and music to the Latter-day Saint hymn "I Know My Father Lives". Nibley was born to Alexander Nibley and his wife Agnes Sloan.
  • He was the younger brother of Hugh Nibley.
  • He had another brother, Richard Nibley, who was also a music educator.
  • Nibley's ancestry was Scottish, English, French and Jewish.
  • Nibley was raised mainly in the Los Angeles area, where he was friends with Ray Bradbury, also a youth at the time.
  • They would jointly write the music and scripts of roadshow productions to be put on by other youth.Nibley became involved in music while still a child.
  • He made his debut with the Glendale Symphony Orchestra at age eleven, and performed as a soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at age 17.
  • He was the principal pianist for the Utah Symphony Orchestra for ten years.
  • Among Nibley's later instructors were Leroy J.
  • Robertson and Gyorgy Sandor. Nibley was a professor at the University of Utah, the University of Michigan, The University of Southern California and Brigham Young University (BYU).
  • At BYU, Nibley also held the position of pianist-in-residence.
  • Among Nibley's students at BYU was Kevin Kenner. Nibley married Marjorie McBride in 1947 and they had six children: Stephen, Breta, Richard, Garn, Virginia, and Jonathan.
  • Marjorie died in 2000.
  • In 2001, Nibley married Nona Gallacher. Nibley's hymn "I Know My Father Lives" is in both the Primary Children's Songbook and the 1985 hymnal of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
  • In 1998, a CD of some of Nibley's works, Quiet Classics: Piano Meditations, was released.
  • Nibley also wrote at least one sonata.

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