Christian Singers of Germany

About this book

Catherine Winkworth's biographical sketches of Germany's hymn writers, published in 1869. Winkworth, the great translator of German hymnody into English, tells the stories of the poets and pastors behind the chorales, from the Reformation onward, and shows the settings of faith and suffering in which their songs were written. A useful companion to her translated collections.

Contents

1. Preface
2. A Preface to all good Hymn-Books
3. 800-900: The Early Dawn.
4. Ambrosian Church Music
5. Gregorian Church Music
6. A Benedictine Monastery
7. Notker's Sequences
8. The Heliand
9. Otfried of Weissenburg
10. Now warneth us the Wise Men's fare
11. 900-1100: A Long Twilight
12. Early Hymns
13. St. Peter
14. Thou Heavenly Lord of Light
15. God, it is Thy property
16. 1100-1250: The Morning 🔒
17. German Sequences 🔒
18. All growth of the forest 🔒
19. He is full of power and might 🔒
20. The Minne-Singers 🔒
21. The Beauty of This World 🔒
22. Crusader's Hymn 🔒
23. Pilgrim's Song 🔒
24. Unruly Thoughts 🔒
25. Lament 🔒
26. Walter von der Vogelweide 🔒
27. When the flowers out of the grass are springing 🔒
28. May Miracles 🔒
29. Walter von der Vogelweide: Serious Poems 🔒
30. The Praise of Germany 🔒
31. A Morning Prayer 🔒
32. Equality Before God 🔒
33. Repentance 🔒
34. In the Holy Land 🔒
35. Narrative Poems 🔒
36. Sir Percival 🔒
37. 1253-1500: Dark and Bright Times 🔒
38. Tauler 🔒
39. What I Must Do 🔒
40. Only Jesus 🔒
41. The Master-Singers 🔒
42. Death Will Conquer 🔒
43. No More Despair 🔒
44. The Drama 🔒
45. Christmas Carol 🔒
46. A spotless Rose is blowing 🔒
47. The Three Maries 🔒
48. Rejoice, dear Christendom, to-day 🔒
49. So holy is this day of days 🔒
50. Easter Song 🔒
51. O World, I must forsake thee 🔒
52. Henry of Loufenburg 🔒
53. I would I were at last at home 🔒
54. Cradle Song 🔒
55. In dulci jubilo 🔒
56. Earliest Hymn-Books 🔒
57. Hymns to the Virgin 🔒
58. 1500-1580: Luther and His Friends 🔒
59. Ulrich von Hutten 🔒
60. Ulrich von Hutten's Song 🔒
61. The Reformation 🔒
62. Martin Luther 🔒
63. A sure stronghold our God is He 🔒
64. Dear Christian people, now rejoice! 🔒
65. In peace and joy I now depart 🔒
66. Justus Jonas 🔒
67. If God were not upon our side 🔒
68. Paul Eber 🔒
69. I fall asleep in Jesu's arms 🔒
70. 1520-1600: Hymns of the Reformation 🔒
71. Many Voices 🔒
72. What pleaseth God, that pleaseth me 🔒
73. Margrave George of Brandenburg's Song 🔒
74. Hans Sachs 🔒
75. Awake, my heart's delight, awake 🔒
76. O Christ, true Son of God most high 🔒
77. Bohemian Brethren 🔒
78. Praise, glory, thanks, be ever paid 🔒
79. Lord, to Thy chosen ones appear 🔒
80. Now God be with us, for the night is closing 🔒
81. Johann Matthesius 🔒
82. Nicolas Hermann 🔒
83. When my last hour is close at hand 🔒
84. O Father, Son, and Holy Ghost 🔒
85. 1560-1616: An Interval 🔒
86. Bartholomew Ringwaldt 🔒
87. Lord Jesu Christ, my Highest Good 🔒
88. Nicholas Selnecker 🔒
89. Lord Jesu Christ, with us abide 🔒
90. Make me Thine own and keep me Thine 🔒
91. Louis Helmboldt 🔒
92. From God shall nought divide me 🔒
93. Weingartner 🔒
94. In God my faithful God 🔒
95. Thou burning Love, Thou holy Flame 🔒
96. Philip Nicolai 🔒
97. O Morning-Star, how fair and bright 🔒
98. Church Music 🔒
99. 1618-1650: The Thirty Years' War 🔒
100. Martin Opitz von Bobersfeld 🔒
101. O Light, who out of Light wast born 🔒
102. Paul Flemming 🔒
103. To Myself 🔒
104. So Hath God Loved the World 🔒
105. Andreas Gryphius 🔒
106. Passing Away 🔒
107. Sonnet 🔒
108. Hymn Writers 🔒
109. Now thank we all our God 🔒
110. Martin Rinkart 🔒
111. The Königsberg Circle 🔒
112. Heinrich Albert 🔒
113. Simon Dach 🔒
114. O ye halls of Heaven 🔒
115. Robert Roberthin 🔒
116. May-Time in War 🔒
117. Johann von Rist 🔒
118. O darkest woe! 🔒
119. Now God be praised, and God alone! 🔒
120. Johann Heermann 🔒
121. Ah! Lord our God, let them not be confounded 🔒
122. Zion mourns in fear and anguish 🔒
123. Heerman's “Sighs” and “Laments” 🔒
124. In Distress of Mind 🔒
125. In Bodily Pain 🔒
126. In Temptation 🔒
127. At the Approach of Death 🔒
128. Paul Gerhardt 🔒
129. Hence, my heart, with such a thought 🔒
130. To God's all-gracious heart and mind 🔒
131. Full of wonder, full of art 🔒
132. Louisa Henrietta, Electress of Brandenburg 🔒
133. I will return unto the Lord 🔒
134. George Neumarck 🔒
135. Anton Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick 🔒
136. Patience and Humility 🔒
137. Albinus 🔒
138. Johann Frank 🔒
139. Jesu, priceless treasure 🔒
140. 1635-1700: The New School 🔒
141. Friedrich von Logau 🔒
142. Aphorisms 🔒
143. Epitaph on his Wife 🔒
144. Johann Valentin Andrea 🔒
145. Forgotten Love 🔒
146. Olearius 🔒
147. Friedrich von Spee 🔒
148. A Love-Song of the Bride of Christ, in Early Summertime 🔒
149. Johann Scheffler (Angelus Silesius) 🔒
150. O Good beyond compare! 🔒
151. Morning Star in darksome night 🔒
152. Aphorisms 🔒
153. The Second Silesian School 🔒
154. Jesu be ne'er forgot 🔒
155. Why is it that life is no longer sad 🔒
156. 1660-1750: The Pietists 🔒
157. Philip Jacob Spener 🔒
158. August Herrmann Franke 🔒
159. Anastasius Freylinghausen 🔒
160. Thou art First and Best 🔒
161. Spener (continued) 🔒
162. Shall I o'er the future fret 🔒
163. Later Pietists 🔒
164. Carl Heinrich von Bogatsky 🔒
165. Jehovah, God of boundless strength and might 🔒
166. Benjamin Schmolck 🔒
167. Courage, my heart, press cheerly on 🔒
168. Albert Bengel 🔒
169. Philip Frederick Hiller 🔒
170. Thou fathomless Abyss of Love 🔒
171. He Maketh all our Bed in our Sickness 🔒
172. Joachim Neander 🔒
173. O Thou true God alone 🔒
174. 1690-1760: The Mystics and Separatists 🔒
175. Gottfried Arnold 🔒
176. Anoint us with Thy blessed love 🔒
177. Full many a way, full many a path 🔒
178. I leave Him not, who came to save 🔒
179. Gerhard Tersteegen 🔒
180. Lost in darkness, girt with dangers 🔒
181. Gerhard Tersteegen (continued) 🔒
182. The Mote in the Sunbeam 🔒
183. Within and Without 🔒
184. At Evening 🔒
185. The Cross 🔒
186. The Tired Child 🔒
187. The Moravians (Nicolaus von Zinzendorf) 🔒
188. Jesu, day by day 🔒
189. Such the King will stoop to and embrace 🔒
190. Other Moravian Hymn-Writers (Albertini) 🔒
191. Lamp within me! brightly burn and glow 🔒
192. Descendents of Pietism 🔒
193. 1750-1850: Modern Times 🔒
194. Roman Catholic Hymns 🔒
195. Christian Fürchtegott Gellert 🔒
196. When these brief trial-days are spent 🔒
197. Johann Andreas Cramer 🔒
198. The Duty of the Scholar 🔒
199. Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock 🔒
200. The Vision of God 🔒
201. Psalm 🔒
202. Rise again! yes, rise again wilt thou 🔒
203. Modern Hymns 🔒
204. Friedrich Rückert 🔒
205. Midnight 🔒
206. Bethlehem and Calvary 🔒
207. Colophon 🔒