Tune: RINKART (Bach)

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RINKART (Bach)

Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Published in 11 hymnals

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Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach was born at Eisenach into a musical family and in a town steeped in Reformation history, he received early musical training from his father and older brother, and elementary education in the classical school Luther had earlier attended. Throughout his life he made extraordinary efforts to learn from other musicians. At 15 he walked to Lüneburg to work as a chorister and study at the convent school of St. Michael. From there he walked 30 miles to Hamburg to hear Johann Reinken, and 60 miles to Celle to become familiar with French composition and performance traditions. Once he obtained a month's leave from his job to hear Buxtehude, but stayed nearly four months. He arranged compositions from Vivaldi and other Itali… Go to person page >

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Tune Information

Title:	RINKART (Bach)
Composer:	Johann Sebastian Bach
Meter:	6.7.6.7.6.6.6.6
Incipit:	53211 76534 56
Key:	D Major
Copyright:	Public Domain

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Texts

Christ Is the World's True Light

Come, let us all this day, His Holy Spirit praising

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150 Last Verse Harmonies: For Use with the Hymn Books of the Baptist, Methodist, United Reformed and Other Free Churches
Composer/Editor June Nixon
Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (2007) pp. 103
Last Verse Extravaganza for Organ: 200 Fabulous Arrangements
Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (2001) pp. 136
More Last Verses: Another Two Hundred Varied Hymn Tune Harmonies
Composer/Editor Noel Rawsthorne
Published By: Kevin Mayhew Ltd. (1996) pp. 138