Lyricist, Composer and Arranger
Estimates of the number of songs authored, composed, or arranged by Excell range from two to three thousand. Two that remain well known are his 1909 arrangement of John Newton's Amazing Grace and the tune he composed for Johnson Oatman's Count Your Blessings.
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“A nation creates music—the composer only arranges it.”
—Mikhail Glinka (1804–1857)