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And may the promise of Advent be yours this day and always.

Ach, wo findet meine Seele

Author: Ernst Gottlieb Woltersdorf

Woltersdorf: Ernst Gottlieb W., as a hymn writer, preacher, prolific writer and educators in the field of Erbauungslitteratur one of the most outstanding representatives of pietistic healthy heart and mind towards the middle of the 18th Century. He was born on 31 May 1725 as the sixth son of the preacher to Gabriel Luke Friedrichsfelde in Berlin, who was appointed 10 years after its birth as a preacher at the St. George Church in Berlin. The blessing of a serious Christian education accompanied him to the Berlin High School to the gray convent, from which he received in 1742, only 17 years old, the University of Halle, to be under the direction of the pietistic school teachers belonging to J. Lange, Michael, Baumgarten and Knapp to pay the… Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: Ach, wo findet meine Seele
Author: Ernst Gottlieb Woltersdorf
Language: German
Copyright: Public Domain

Tune

NETTLETON

The authorship of this tune is not clear, with different editors attributing the tune to different composers (or not naming one at all). See the instances list above for the different attributions. From William J. Reynolds, Companion to Baptist Hymnal (1976): "Nettleton first appeared as a two-part…

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HARWELL (Mason)


[Glauben heißt, die Gnad erkennen] (Biermann)


Timeline

Instances

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Der Neue Kleine Psalter #156

Deutsches Gesangbuch der Bisch. Methodisten-Kirche #d10

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Deutsches Lieder- und Melodienbuch #33

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Die Geistliche Viole #38

Die Geistliche Viole #d7

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Die Glaubensharfe (With Melodies) #345

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Die Glaubensharfe #345

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Die Pilgerharfe #147

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Evangelisches Gesangbuch mit vierstimmigen Melodien #114[378]

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Evangelisches Gesangbuch #178

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Evangelisches Gesangbuch #G38

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Evangelisches Gesangbuch #G38

Gesang und Melodienbuch #d14

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Gesangbuch der Bischöflichen Methodisten-Kirche #304

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Gesangbuch der Bischöflichen Methodistenkirche #393

Gesangbuch der Evangelischen Gemeinschaft für öffentlichen und häuslichen Gottesdienst #d18

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Gesangbuch der Evangelischen Gemeinschaft #369

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Gesangbuch mit Noten #196

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Gesangbuch mit Noten #196

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Gesangbuch #522

Sammlung von geistlichen Liedern ... kirchlicher und haeuslichen Gottesdienst #d7

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