The Nativity

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Listen to the wondrous song

Author: Simon N. Patten
Tune: MENDELSSOHN (51171)
Published in 1 hymnal

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Author: Simon N. Patten

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Text Information

Text Information

First Line:	Listen to the wondrous song
Title:	The Nativity
Author:	Simon N. Patten
Copyright:	Public Domain

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Tune

MENDELSSOHN (51171)

The tune is from the second chorus of Felix Mendelssohn's (PHH 279) Festgesang (Op. 68) for male voices and brass; it was first performed in 1840 at the Gutenberg Festival in Leipzig, a festival celebrating the anniversary of Gutenberg's invention of the printing press. Mendelssohn's tune is similar…

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