Frederick L. Hosmer, 1840-1929
A joyous Easter song in which the springtime awakening in nature symbolizes the newness of spiritual life.
For comments on Frederick L. Hosmer see [Hymn 72].
MUSIC. SALZBURG appeared in the 19th edition of Crüger’s Praxis Pietatis Melica, 1678, a work which contained the main stream of Lutheran hymnody in the middle of the 17th century. The tune was set to the hymn, “Alle Menschen müssen sterben.”
The composer, Jacob Hintze, 1622-1702, was born in Bernau, Brandenburg. He became court musician to the Elector of Brandenburg, in Berlin, in 1666, and in the year 1662 succeeded Crüger, upon the latter’s death, as editor of the Praxis. The present version, slightly altered from the original, is from J. S. Bach’s Choralgesänge. The tune is also associated with Stopford Brooke’s hymn, “Let the whole creation cry.” ([No. 49]).
WHITSUNTIDE
546. O Holy Spirit, enter in
Michael Schirmer, 1606-73
Tr. Catherine Winkworth, 1829-78