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Our God, to Whom We Turn
Author: Edward Grubb Meter: 6.7.6.7.6.6.6.6 Appears in 18 hymnals
Our God, to Whom We Turn
O GOTT, DU FROMMER GOTT
Meter: 6.7.6.7.6.6.6.6 Appears in 23 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750 Tune Sources: Neu ordentlich Gesangbuch, 1646 (melody) Tune Key: a minor Incipit: 51712 33432 17551 Used With Text: Our God, to whom we turn
O GOTT, DU FROMMER GOTT
O GOTT, DU FROMMER GOTT (Darmstadt)
Appears in 62 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: J. G. C. Störl Incipit: 33654 33512 32133 Used With Text: Our God, to whom we turn
O GOTT, DU FROMMER GOTT (Darmstadt)
Our God, to Whom We Turn
Author: Edward Grubb, 1854-1939 Hymnal: Songs of Light #22 (1977) Topics: Faith; Praise; Truth Languages: English Tune Title: [Our God, to whom we turn]
Our God, to Whom We Turn
Our God, to Whom We Turn
Author: Edward Grubb Hymnal: The New Century Hymnal #37 (1995) Meter: 6.7.6.7.6.6.6.6 First Line: Our God to whom we turn Topics: Adoration and Praise God; Comfort and Assurance; God Works in Creation Languages: English Tune Title: STEADFAST (O GOTT, DU FROMMER GOTT, Hanover, 1646)
Our God, to Whom We Turn
Our God, to Whom We Turn
Author: Edward Grubb Hymnal: The Hymnbook #128 (1955) Meter: 6.7.6.7.6.6.6.6 Lyrics: 1 Our God, to whom we turn
When weary with illusion,
Whose stars serenely burn
Above this earth's confusion,
Thine is the mighty plan,
The steadfast order sure,
In which the world began,
Endures, and shall endure.
2 Thou art Thyself the Truth;
Though we, who fain would find Thee,
Have tried, with thoughts uncouth,
In feeble words to bind Thee,
It is because Thou art
We're driven to the quest;
Till truth from falsehood part,
Our souls can find no rest.
3 All beauty speaks of Thee--
The mountains and the rivers,
The line of lifted sea,
Where spreading moonlight quivers,
The deep-toned organ blast
That rolls through arches dim--
Hints of the music vast
Of Thy eternal hymn.
4 Wherever goodness lurks
We catch Thy tones appealing;
Where man for justice works
Thou art Thyself revealing;
The blood of man, for man
On friendship's altar spilt,
Betrays the mystic plan
On which Thy house is built.
5 Thou hidden fount of love,
Of peace, and truth, and beauty,
Inspire us from above
With joy and strength for duty;
May Thy fresh light arise
Within each clouded heart,
And give us open eyes
To see Thee as Thou art.
Amen. Topics: Aspiration; Discipleship; God Eternity and Power; God Presence; Schools; God the Father His Presence Scripture: Isaiah 45:22 Tune Title: O GOTT, DU FROMMER GOTT
Our God, to Whom We Turn
Johann Sebastian Bach
1685 - 1750 Person Name: J. S. Bach Harmonizer of "WAS FRAG' ICH NACH DER WELT" in The Presbyterian Hymnal Johann Sebastian Bach was born at Eisenach into a musical family and in a town steeped in Reformation history, he received early musical training from his father and older brother, and elementary education in the classical school Luther had earlier attended.
Throughout his life he made extraordinary efforts to learn from other musicians. At 15 he walked to Lüneburg to work as a chorister and study at the convent school of St. Michael. From there he walked 30 miles to Hamburg to hear Johann Reinken, and 60 miles to Celle to become familiar with French composition and performance traditions. Once he obtained a month's leave from his job to hear Buxtehude, but stayed nearly four months. He arranged compositions from Vivaldi and other Italian masters. His own compositions spanned almost every musical form then known (Opera was the notable exception).
In his own time, Bach was highly regarded as organist and teacher, his compositions being circulated as models of contrapuntal technique. Four of his children achieved careers as composers; Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, and Chopin are only a few of the best known of the musicians that confessed a major debt to Bach's work in their own musical development. Mendelssohn began re-introducing Bach's music into the concert repertoire, where it has come to attract admiration and even veneration for its own sake.
After 20 years of successful work in several posts, Bach became cantor of the Thomas-schule in Leipzig, and remained there for the remaining 27 years of his life, concentrating on church music for the Lutheran service: over 200 cantatas, four passion settings, a Mass, and hundreds of chorale settings, harmonizations, preludes, and arrangements. He edited the tunes for Schemelli's Musicalisches Gesangbuch, contributing 16 original tunes. His choral harmonizations remain a staple for studies of composition and harmony. Additional melodies from his works have been adapted as hymn tunes.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Ahasuer Fritsch
1629 - 1701 Person Name: Ahasuerus Fritsch Composer of "WAS FRAG' ICH NACH DER WELT" in The Presbyterian Hymnal Born: December 16, 1629, Mücheln, Saxony.
Died: August 24, 1701, Rudolstadt, Germany.
With help from the family of a young noble he tutored, Fritsch received a good education, earning his law degree from the University of Jena in 1661. He later became chancellor of the university and president of the Consistory of Rudolstadt. He wrote on numerous subjects, including antiquities, law, and religion, and collected hymns.
Hymns--
"Liebster Immanuel, Herzog der Frommen"
"Dearest Immanuel, Prince of the Lowly"
Music--
WAS FRAG' ICH NACH DER WELT
--www.cyberhymnal.org/bio
Ahasuer Fritsch
Johann G. C. Störl
1675 - 1719 Person Name: J. G. C. Störl Composer of "O GOTT, DU FROMMER GOTT (Darmstadt)" in The Hymnal Johann Georg Stoerl; b. 1675, Kirchberg; d. 1719, Stuttgart
Evangelical Lutheran Hymnal, 1908
Johann G. C. Störl
