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Text:From Heaven High I Come to Earth
Author:Martin Luther
Translator:Roland Bainton
Tune:VOM HIMMEL HOCH
Composer (attributed to):Martin Luther

145. From Heaven High I Come to Earth

Text Information
First Line: From heaven high I come to earth
Title: From Heaven High I Come to Earth
Author: Martin Luther (c. 1535)
Translator: Roland Bainton (1947, alt.)
Meter: LM
Language: English
Publication Date: 1998
Tune Information
Name: VOM HIMMEL HOCH
Composer (attributed to): Martin Luther
Meter: LM
Key: C Major
Source: Schumann's Geistliche Lieder, Leipzig, 1539


Text Information:

Luther authored text and tune for a Christmas play for his children. His son Hans sang the angel's stanzas (1-3) of good news and the family sang their response in the following stanzas


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