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GELOBET SEIST DU

Composer: Johann Walther

Johann Walther (b. Kahla, Thuringia, Germany, 1496: d. Torgau, Germany, 1570) was one of the great early influences in Lutheran church music. At first he seemed destined to be primarily a court musician. A singer in the choir of the Elector of Saxony in the Torgau court in 1521, he became the court's music director in 1525. After the court orchestra was disbanded in 1530 and reconstituted by the town, Walther became cantor at the local school in 1534 and directed the music in several churches. He served the Elector of Saxony at the Dresden court from 1548 to 1554 and then retired in Torgau. Walther met Martin Luther in 1525 and lived with him for three weeks to help in the preparation of Luther's German Mass. In 1524 Walther published the… Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: GELOBET SEIST DU
Composer: Johann Walther (1524)
Meter: 8.7.8.8.4
Incipit: 55565 12172 32165
Key: C Major
Source: Eyn Enchiridion oder Handbüchlein, Erfurt, 1524
Copyright: Public Domain

Timeline

Arrangements

Harmonizations, Introductions, Descants, Intonations

  • The Hymns of Martin Luther
    Composer/Editor Peter C. Reske
    Published By: Concordia Publishing House (2016) pp. 76
  • Off the Page, Too: More Techniques for Creating Hymn-Based Organ Settings
    Composer/Editor Donald Rotermund
    Published By: MorningStar Music Publishers, Inc. (2011) pp. #2-15
  • Assist Me To Proclaim: Alternate Hymn Settings Volume 1
    Composer/Editor Henry V. Gerike
    Published By: Concordia Publishing House (2009) pp. 28
  • Basic Hymn Accompaniments Volume I
    Composer/Editor Thomas R. Pearce
    Published By: Concordia Publishing House (1988) pp. 44
  • The Concordia Hymn Prelude Series Volume 3: Christmas: Cas - Gla
    Composer/Editors Herbert Gotsch; Samuel Scheidt
    Published By: Concordia Publishing House (1982) pp. 37
  • Settings of Festival Hymns and Chorales: Set I
    Composer/Editor David N. Johnson
    Published By: Concordia Publishing House (1981) pp. 10
  • Hymn Preludes and Free Accompaniments 3
    Composer/Editor Philip Gehring
    Published By: Augsburg Publishing House (1978) pp. SS
  • New Organ Accompaniments For Hymns
    Composer/Editor Paul G. Bunjes
    Published By: Concordia Publishing House (1976) pp. 20
  • Intonations for the Hymn of the Week
    Composer/Editor Theodore Beck
    Published By: Concordia Publishing House (1969) pp. 7
  • The Hymn of the Week: Tabulatura Americana Pars Prima Organ Settings
    Composer/Editor Jan Bender
    Published By: Concordia Publishing House (1961) pp. 6

Organ Solo

  • A Reformation Christmas: Organ Preludes on Sixteenth-Century Hymns
    Composer/Editor Kevin J. Hildebrand
    Published By: Concordia Publishing House (2016) pp. 26
  • The Organist's Companion Volume 39 Number 1 November December 2016 General, Advent, Christmas, Epiphany: A Bi-monthly Journal of Quality Organ Music for the Practical Church Musician
    Composer/Editors Wayne Leupold; Michael S. D. Gatterman
    Published By: Wayne Leupold Editions, Inc. (2016) pp. 26
  • Venite adoremus - A Christmas Fantasy
    Composer/Editor Bernard Wayne Sanders
    Published By: Concordia Publishing House (2016) pp. 3
  • Hymn Prelude Library Volume Four Tunes FG: Lutheran Service Book
    Composer/Editors Kevin J. Hildebrand; Paul Grime
    Published By: Concordia Publishing House (2013) pp. 78, 82
  • 8 Easy Chorale Preludes for All Seasons
    Composer/Editor Benjamin M. Culli
    Published By: Concordia Publishing House (2012) pp. 5
  • Carols for the Nativity: Nine Carol Settings for Organ
    Composer/Editor John Eggert
    Published By: Concordia Publishing House (2012) pp. 5
  • Chorale Preludes of Harald Rohlig Set 2
    Composer/Editor Harald Rohlig
    Published By: Concordia Publishing House (2011) pp. 20
  • Song Of the Gospel Volume 1: Organ Literature for the Liturgical Year Based on the Hymnic Contributions of Martin Luther
    Composer/Editors Henry V. Gerike; Georg Boehm
    Published By: Concordia Publishing House (2006) pp. 24
  • Chorale Preludes I: Choralvorspiele fur Orgel 25 Choralvorspiele
    Composer/Editor Helmut Walcha
    Published By: C. F. Peters Corporation (2002) pp. 10
  • The Organist's Companion Volume 23 Number 5 July 2001 General, Weddings: A Bi-monthly Journal of Quality Organ Music for the Practical Church Musician
    Composer/Editors Wayne Leupold; Georg Bohm
    Published By: McAfee Music Corporation (2001) pp. 17
  • Organa pro Organo: Zehn Choralvorspiele zum Gotteslob
    Composer/Editor Wilhelm Keller
    Published By: Musikverlag Alfred Coppenrath (1996) pp. 5
  • Faber Early Organ Series - European Organ Music of the Sixteenth & Seventeenth Centuries - Volume 12: The Netherlands & N. Germany c.1650 - c. 1710
    Composer/Editors Henrik Glahn; Haakon Elmer; Matthias Weckmann
    Published By: Faber Music Limited (1988) pp. 2
  • Improvisations for the Christmas Season Set 3
    Composer/Editor Paul O. Manz
    Published By: MorningStar Music Publishers, Inc. (1987) pp. 20
  • The Concordia Hymn Prelude Series Volume 3: Christmas: Cas - Gla
    Composer/Editors Herbert Gotsch; Samuel Scheidt
    Published By: Concordia Publishing House (1982) pp. 36
  • The Sacred Organ Journal Volume 11 Number 5 May 1977: A Bi-Monthly Anthology for Church Organists
    Composer/Editor David H. Hegarty
    Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (1977) pp. 37
  • Preludes for the Hymns in Worship Supplement Volume I: Advent, Christmas, Epiphany Nos. 701 - 724
    Composer/Editor Helmut Barbe
    Published By: Concordia Publishing House (1971) pp. 16-17
  • Ten Chorale Improvisations Set III
    Composer/Editor Paul O. Manz
    Published By: Concordia Publishing House (1970) pp. 16
  • Ten Chorale Improvisations Set III: Opus 9
    Composer/Editor Paul O. Manz
    Published By: Concordia Publishing House (1970) pp. 16
  • Little Choral Preludes: For Organ (Harmonium or Piano)
    Composer/Editor Jan Bender
    Published By: Bärenreiter-Verlag Karl Vötterle GmbH & Co. KG, Kassel, Germany (1965) pp. 12
  • Voluntaries on the Hymn of the Week: Part 1 Advent Christmas Epiphany
    Composer/Editor Wayne Barlow
    Published By: Concordia Publishing House (1963) pp. 12
  • Organ Music for Christmas Volume II: Seventeen Short Pieces (Manuals Only)
    Composer/Editor C. H. Trevor
    Published By: Oxford University Press (1960) pp. 16
  • Three Chorale Fantasias on Pre-Reformation Hymns
    Composer/Editor Ludwig Lenel
    Published By: Concordia Publishing House (1958) pp. 3
  • The Parish Organist Part Five: Advent and Christmas Music
    Composer/Editors Erich Goldschmidt; Johann Pachelbel
    Published By: Concordia Publishing House (1955) pp. 28
  • The Parish Organist Part Six: Christmas and Epiphany Music
    Composer/Editors Erich Goldschmidt; Samuel Scheidt
    Published By: Concordia Publishing House (1955) pp. 12
  • 80 Chorale Preludes: German Masters of the 17th and 18th Centuries
    Composer/Editors Hermann Keller; Johann Heinrich Buttstett
    Published By: C. F. Peters Corporation (1951) pp. 55-56
  • The Church Organist's Golden Treasury Volume Two -- An Anthology of Choral Preludes: Carl F. Pfatteicher
    Composer/Editors Archibald T. Davison; Johann Gottfried Walther
    Published By: Oliver Ditson Company (1951) pp. 1-2, 4
  • Buxtehude Choral Transcriptions for the Organ Volume 3 Part 1: Kalmus Organ Series 3279
    Composer/Editors Dietrich Buxtehude; Philipp Spitta; Max Seiffert
    Published By: The H. W. Gray Company, Inc. (1935) pp. 3
  • The Liturgical Year (Orgelb: Forty-five Organ Chorals
    Composer/Editors Johann Sebastian Bach; Alrbert Riemenschneider
    Published By: Oliver Ditson Company (1933) pp. 14
  • The Liturgical Year (Orgelbüchlein): Forty-five Organ Chorals
    Composer/Editors Johann Sebastian Bach; Alrbert Riemenschneider
    Published By: Oliver Ditson Company (1933) pp. 14
  • Seventy-nine Chorales for the Organ Opus 28
    Composer/Editor Marcel Dupre
    Published By: The H. W. Gray Company, Inc. (1932) pp. 30
  • Buxtehude Choral Transcriptions for the Organ Volume 4 Part 2: Kalmus Organ Series 3280
    Composer/Editors Dietrich Buxtehude; Philipp Spitta; Max Seiffert
    Published By: The H. W. Gray Company, Inc. pp. 96
  • Choral-Improvisations for Organ Op. 65 Volume 1: For Advent and Christmastide
    Composer/Editor Sigfrid Karg-Elert
    Published By: Edward B. Marks Music Company pp. 10

Instruments: Instrumental Solo with Organ

  • Choral Preludes from the 18th Century: For Organ with a Wind Instrument
    Composer/Editor Tamas Zaszkaliczky
    Published By: Editio Musica Budapest (1986) pp. 12

Instruments: Organ and Oboe or Trumpet

  • Six Chorales from Harmonische Seelenlust: for Organ and Oboe or Trumpet
    Composer/Editor Georg Friedrich Kauffmann
    Published By: Concordia Publishing House (1956) pp. 9

Instruments: Organ and Brass

  • Settings of Festival Hymns and Chorales: Set I
    Composer/Editor David N. Johnson
    Published By: Concordia Publishing House (1981) pp. 10

Media

The Cyber Hymnal #5008
Text: O Jesu Christ, All Praise to Thee
  • Adobe Acrobat image (PDF)
  • Noteworthy Composer score (NWC)
  • XML score (XML)
The Cyber Hymnal #13505
Text: Gelobet Seist Du Jesu Christ
  • PDF (PDF)
  • Noteworthy Composer Score (NWC)

Instances

Instances (1 - 10 of 10)
TextPage Scan

Antwort Finden in alten und neuen Liedern, in Worten zum Nachdenken und Beten #23

TextPage Scan

Christian Worship (1993) #33

Christian Worship #359

TextPage Scan

Evangelical Lutheran Hymnary #136

Lutheran Service Book #382

Lutheran Worship #35

Audio

Small Church Music #1835

Text

Śpiewnik Ewangelicki #71

TextScoreAudio

The Cyber Hymnal #5008

TextScoreAudio

The Cyber Hymnal #13505

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