Anthem by Samuel Sebastian Wesley: "Let us now praise famous men," 1874
This music score is the second of two anthems that Dr. Samuel Sebastian Wesley (1810–1876), grandson of Charles Wesley, wrote as settings for Ecclesiasticus 44:1–15. Ecclesiasticus, also known as Sirach (in Greek) and Sira (in Hebrew) is the longest book in the Apocrypha and the final book of the Apocrypha. The author of Ecclesiasticus, Jesus Ben Sira, was a religious teacher and scribe who lived in Jerusalem during the second century B.C.E.
