Glückselige Jugend, eile [suche] doch

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Glückselige Jugend, eile [suche] doch

Author: E. G. Woltersdorf
Tune: EISENACH (Gesius)
Published in 10 hymnals

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	The Art of Hymn Playing Volume II - Intr…

Author: E. G. 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 >

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First Line:	Glückselige Jugend, eile [suche] doch
Author:	E. G. Woltersdorf
Language:	German
Copyright:	Public Domain

Ecclesiastes 12:1
(hymns)

English

Liederbuch für die Jugend #d40

German

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EISENACH (Gesius)

MACHS MIT MIR was first published in the collection of music Das ander Theil des andern newen Operis Geistlicher Deutscher Lieder (1605) by Bartholomäus Gesius (b. Münchenberg, near Frankfurt, Germany, c. 1555; d. Frankfurt, 1613). A prolific composer, Gesius wrote almost exclusively for the churc…

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