130. O Christ, How Shall I Meet You

Text Information
First Line: O Christ, how shall I meet you
Title: O Christ, How Shall I Meet You
Author: Paul Gerhardt (1653)
Translator: Catherine Winkworth (1863, alt.)
Meter: 76.76D
Language: English
Publication Date: 1998
Topic: Jesus Christ: Advent
Tune Information
Name: ST. THEODULPH
Composer: Melchior Teschner (1614)
Harmonizer: William Henry Monk (1861)
Meter: 76.76D
Key: B♭ Major


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Paul Gerhardt rose above the trials of the Thirty Years' War to write this Pietistic expression of the love of God. Forty Gerhardt texts are still used in German churches


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