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So Rest, My Rest

Author: S. Franck, 1659-1725; R. Massie, 1800-87 Meter: 4.4.7.7.6 Appears in 19 hymnals Lyrics: 1 So rest, my Rest, Thou Ever-blest! Thy grave with sinners making; By Thy precious death from sin My dead soul awaking. 2 After Thy strife, Life of my life, Thy fervent love hath driven Thee into the cold, dark grave Thst I might gain heaven. 3 Breath of all breath! I know from death Thou wilt my dust awaken; Wherefore should I dread the grave Or my faith be shaken? 4 To me the tomb Shall be a room Where I lie down on roses; Who by faith hath conquered death Sweetly there reposes. 5 Meantime I will My Savior, still Deep in my bosom lay Thee, Ever musing on Thy death. Leave me not, I pray Thee! Topics: Jesus, Our Redeemer

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O TRAURIGKEIT

Meter: 4.4.7.7.6 Appears in 38 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Anonymous Tune Sources: (Mainz, Ger­ma­ny: 1628) Tune Key: f minor Incipit: 53127 11755 56542 Used With Text: So Rest-My Rest!
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MINDEN

Appears in 8 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Christoph Peter (1685-1750); Johann Sebastian Bach Tune Key: g minor Incipit: 53323 11755 56543 Used With Text: So rest, my Rest, thou forever blest
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ARIMATHEA

Appears in 5 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: J. B. Calkin Incipit: 55563 44523 45665 Used With Text: So rest, my Rest! Thou ever Blest!

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So Rest, My Rest

Author: S. Franck, 1659-1725; R. Massie, 1800-87 Hymnal: Evangelical Lutheran Hymnary #338 (1996) Meter: 4.4.7.7.6 Lyrics: 1 So rest, my Rest, Thou Ever-blest! Thy grave with sinners making; By Thy precious death from sin My dead soul awaking. 2 After Thy strife, Life of my life, Thy fervent love hath driven Thee into the cold, dark grave Thst I might gain heaven. 3 Breath of all breath! I know from death Thou wilt my dust awaken; Wherefore should I dread the grave Or my faith be shaken? 4 To me the tomb Shall be a room Where I lie down on roses; Who by faith hath conquered death Sweetly there reposes. 5 Meantime I will My Savior, still Deep in my bosom lay Thee, Ever musing on Thy death. Leave me not, I pray Thee! Topics: Jesus, Our Redeemer Languages: English
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So Rest-My Rest!

Author: Salomo Franck; Richard Massie Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #6232 Meter: 4.4.7.7.6 First Line: So rest-my Rest Lyrics: 1. So rest–my Rest! Thou ever blest! Thy grave with sinners making, By Thy precious death, from sin My dead soul awaking! 2. Here hast Thou lain, After much pain, Life of my life, reposing! Round Thee now a rock-hewn grave, Rock of Ages, closing. 3. Breath of all breath! I know from death Thou wilt my soul awaken! Wherefore should I dread the grave, Or my faith be shaken? 4. To me the tomb Is but a room, Where I lie down with Jesus! Who by death hath conquered death, Safely there receives us! 5. The body dies (Naught else) and lies In dust, until victorious From the grave, it shall arise Beautiful and glorious! 6. Meantime I will, My Jesus, still Deep in my bosom lay Thee, Musing on Thy death; in death Be with me, I pray Thee! Languages: English Tune Title: O TRAURIGKEIT
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So rest, my Rest

Hymnal: Evangelical Lutheran Hymn-book #80 (1893) Meter: 4.4.7.7.6 Lyrics: 1 SO rest, my Rest! Thou ever Blest! Thy grave with sinners making; By Thy precious death from sin My dead soul awaking. 2 After Thy strife, Life of my life, Thou'rt in the tomb reposing, Round Thee now a rock-hewn grave, Rock of ages, closing. 3 How cold art Thou, My Saviour, now! Thy fervent love hath driven Thee into the cold, dark grace, That I might gain heaven. 4 Breath of all breath! I know, from death Thou wilt my dust awaken; Wherefore should I dread the grave, Or my faith be shaken? 5 To me the tomb Shall be a room, Where I lie down on roses; Who by faith hath conquered death, Sweetly there reposes. 6 The body dies-- Naught else--and lies In dust, until victorious From the grave it shall arise Beautiful and glorious. 7 Meantime I will, My Saviour, still Deep in my bosom lay Thee, Ever musing on Thy death: Leave me not, I pray Thee! Topics: Passion Languages: English

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Anonymous

Composer of "O TRAURIGKEIT" in The Cyber Hymnal In some hymnals, the editors noted that a hymn's author is unknown to them, and so this artificial "person" entry is used to reflect that fact. Obviously, the hymns attributed to "Author Unknown" "Unknown" or "Anonymous" could have been written by many people over a span of many centuries.

Johann Sebastian Bach

1685 - 1750 Arranger of "MINDEN" in The Evangelical Hymnal with Tunes Johann Sebastian Bach was born at Eisenach into a musical family and in a town steeped in Reformation history, he received early musical training from his father and older brother, and elementary education in the classical school Luther had earlier attended. Throughout his life he made extraordinary efforts to learn from other musicians. At 15 he walked to Lüneburg to work as a chorister and study at the convent school of St. Michael. From there he walked 30 miles to Hamburg to hear Johann Reinken, and 60 miles to Celle to become familiar with French composition and performance traditions. Once he obtained a month's leave from his job to hear Buxtehude, but stayed nearly four months. He arranged compositions from Vivaldi and other Italian masters. His own compositions spanned almost every musical form then known (Opera was the notable exception). In his own time, Bach was highly regarded as organist and teacher, his compositions being circulated as models of contrapuntal technique. Four of his children achieved careers as composers; Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, and Chopin are only a few of the best known of the musicians that confessed a major debt to Bach's work in their own musical development. Mendelssohn began re-introducing Bach's music into the concert repertoire, where it has come to attract admiration and even veneration for its own sake. After 20 years of successful work in several posts, Bach became cantor of the Thomas-schule in Leipzig, and remained there for the remaining 27 years of his life, concentrating on church music for the Lutheran service: over 200 cantatas, four passion settings, a Mass, and hundreds of chorale settings, harmonizations, preludes, and arrangements. He edited the tunes for Schemelli's Musicalisches Gesangbuch, contributing 16 original tunes. His choral harmonizations remain a staple for studies of composition and harmony. Additional melodies from his works have been adapted as hymn tunes. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

John Baptiste Calkin

1827 - 1905 Person Name: J. B. Calkin Composer of "ARIMATHEA" in Songs of Worship John Baptiste Calkin United Kingdom 1827-1905. Born in London, he was reared in a musical atmosphere. Studying music under his father, and with three brothers, he became a composer, organist, and music teacher. At 19, he was appointed organist, precenter, and choirmaster at St. Columbia's College, Dublin, Ireland, 1846 to 1853. From 1853 to 1863 we was organist and choirmaster at Woburn Chapel, London. From 1863 to 1868, he was organist of Camden Road Chapel. From 1870 to 1884 he was organist at St. Thomas's Church, Camden Town. In 1883 he became professor at Guildhall School of Music and concentrated on teaching and composing. He was also a professor of music and on the council of Trinity College, London, and a member of the Philharmonic Society (1862). In 1893 he was a fellow of the College of Organists. John and wife, Victoire, had four sons, each following a musical carer. He wrote much music for organ and scored string arrangements, sonatas, duos, etc. He died at Hornsey Rise Gardens. John Perry
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