[When storms around are sweeping] (Plötz)

Composer: Otto Plötz

This tune is misattributed to Johanna Kinkel. She was a musician who composed a tune to her husband's (Johann Gottfried Kinkel) poem, "Des Lehnsmanns Abschied" or "Ritters Abschied", first line: "Weh dass wir scheiden müssen." Otto Plötz also composed a tune to this poem in 1859. Plötz's tune is used with Martin Meyer's translation of Kinkel's poem ("The Knight's Farewell," first line: "Hark! trumpets far off sounding") published by Root & Cady in 1863. It is the same tune used with the text "O Lord, Remember Me" adapted in 1873 by George Root in his The Männerchor

Dianne Shapiro from research by Alan Johns (comments on hymnstudiesblog, retrieved 1/17/2022)

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Praise for the Lord (Expanded Edition) (1997), p.576