Various survivors’ accounts reported that the ship’s string players continued to perform a version of the hymn as the ship was sinking, although others contradicted this and stated it was Archibald Joyce’s waltz, Autumn Dream. The Hymn, which was written by Sarah Fuller Adams (see below), is a retelling of Jacob’s Dream from Genesis 28:11–12 of the Bible. The string players performed ‘Nearer, my God, to thee’, a 19th-century hymn published in Hymns and Anthems – a tome used at South Place Chapel, Finsbury, London – in 1841. On top of these musicians’ heroic contribution in trying to instil calm to the very last moment, what they played is still known to this day. The moment ‘the violins kept playing’ has become one of the enduring legends of the sinking of the Titanic. But, what were they playing and who wrote it? It has become legend that the chamber group performing on the Titanic the night it sank played until the very end.
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