Tune: HEILIGER GEIST

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HEILIGER GEIST

Composer: Johann Crüger
Published in 28 hymnals

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Choral
	COME, THOU HOLY PARACLETE

Composer: Johann Crüger

Johann Crüger (b. Grossbriesen, near Guben, Prussia, Germany, 1598; d. Berlin, Germany, 1662) Crüger attended the Jesuit College at Olmutz and the Poets' School in Regensburg, and later studied theology at the University of Wittenberg. He moved to Berlin in 1615, where he published music for the rest of his life. In 1622 he became the Lutheran cantor at the St. Nicholas Church and a teacher for the Gray Cloister. He wrote music instruction manuals, the best known of which is Synopsis musica (1630), and tirelessly promoted congregational singing. With his tunes he often included elaborate accompaniment for various instruments. Crüger's hymn collection, Neues vollkomliches Gesangbuch (1640), was one of the first hymnals to include figure… Go to person page >

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Tune Information

Title:	HEILIGER GEIST
Composer:	Johann Crüger
Meter:	7.7.7
Incipit:	13234 32345 65435
Key:	e minor
Source:	Vollständige Psalmen, Bremen, 1639
Copyright:	Public Domain

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Lord, in This Thy Mercy's Day

Jesus, to Thy Table Led

Jesus in the olive grove

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COME, THOU HOLY PARACLETE

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