Tune: O EWIGKEIT

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O EWIGKEIT

Composer: Johann Schop; Adapter: Johann Crüger (1653)
Published in 38 hymnals

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	GIVE TO OUR GOD IMMORTAL PRAISE (Celebra…

Composer: Johann Schop

Johann Schop Germany 1590-1667. Born at lower Saxony, Germany, he became a Lutheran composer and violinist, much admired for his virtuoso and technical ability. In 1614 Duke Friedrich Ulrich made him a probationary musician in the Hofkapelle at Wolfenbuttel. He performed playing various instruments, but excelled as a violinist. He was engaged permanently in 1615, but the same year he responded to a summons to join the flourishing musical establishment of King Christian IV of Denmark in Copenhagen. There he met English viol player, William Brade, who had earlier been in service to Hamburg, Germany (and may have taught Schop there). Schops compositions for the violin set impressive demands for that area at that time. He also played oth… Go to person page >

Adapter: Johann Crüger

Johann Crüger (b. Grossbriesen, near Guben, Prussia, Germany, 1598; d. Berlin, Germany, 1662) Crüger attended the Jesuit College at Olmutz and the Poets' School in Regensburg, and later studied theology at the University of Wittenberg. He moved to Berlin in 1615, where he published music for the rest of his life. In 1622 he became the Lutheran cantor at the St. Nicholas Church and a teacher for the Gray Cloister. He wrote music instruction manuals, the best known of which is Synopsis musica (1630), and tirelessly promoted congregational singing. With his tunes he often included elaborate accompaniment for various instruments. Crüger's hymn collection, Neues vollkomliches Gesangbuch (1640), was one of the first hymnals to include figure… Go to person page >

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Tune Information

Title:	O EWIGKEIT
Composer:	Johann Schop
Adapter:	Johann Crüger (1653)
Meter:	8.8.7.8.8.7.8.8
Incipit:	13455 67113 45543
Key:	D Major
Copyright:	Public Domain

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Texts

O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort!

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GIVE TO OUR GOD IMMORTAL PRAISE (Celebration 112)

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