Uzziah Christopher Burnap (1834-1900) was a U.S. American church musician and composer of gospel songs. He was a grocer in Brooklyn, New York, who also played the organ and composed. Because Bishop Phillips Brooks (1835 - 1893) referred again and again to how quickly the organist Lewis H. Redner (1830 - 1908) had set his poem "O Little Town of Bethlehem" Burnap dared in 1895 to try a "corrected" setting, which was preferred by some congregations and (probably because of the Jewish origin of the composer) was identified by the name "Ephratah”.
