Text:Open Now Your Gates of Beauty
Author:Benjamin Schmolck
Translator:Catherine Winkworth
Tune:UNSER HERRSCHER
Composer:Joachim Neander

249. Open Now Your Gates of Beauty

Text Information
First Line: Open now your gates of beauty, Zion
Title: Open Now Your Gates of Beauty
Author: Benjamin Schmolck (1732)
Translator: Catherine Winkworth (1863, alt.)
Meter: 87.87.77
Language: English
Publication Date: 1998
Tune Information
Name: UNSER HERRSCHER
Composer: Joachim Neander (1680)
Meter: 87.87.77
Key: B♭ Major
Source: Harm. The Chorale Book for England, 1863


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A Lutheran pastor in Schweidnitz, Germany, under difficult circumstances, Schmolck wrote over one thousand hymns


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