248. One thought I have, my ample creed
Frederick L. Hosmer, 1840-1929
Several of Hosmer’s hymns express his “thought of God,” this being one of the finest. It relates all of life and its needs to the thought of God.
For comments on Frederick L. Hosmer see [Hymn 72].
MUSIC. PRAETORIUS is from Harmoniae Hymnorum Scholae Gorlicensis, Görlitz, 1599. It is supposed to have been written by M. Praetorius, for it appeared in his Musae Sionae, Pt. VI, 1609, and hence its name.
Michael Praetorius, 1571-1621, was born in Kreuzburg, Thuringia. He was educated at the University of Frankfurt-an-der-Oder and became Kapellmeister at Lüneburg. Praetorius was a prolific composer, but his fame rests chiefly on a four-volume work on musical theory entitled, Syntagma musicum.