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My Purchased Files| Text: | O Morning Star, How Fair and Bright |
| Author: | Philipp Nicolai |
| Translator: | Catherine Winkworth |
| Tune: | WIE SCHÖN LEUCHTET |
| Composer: | Phillip Nicolai |
| Harmonizer: | J. S. Bach |
161. O Morning Star, How Fair and Bright
| Text Information | |
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| First Line: | O Morning Star, how fair and bright |
| Title: | O Morning Star, How Fair and Bright |
| Author: | Philipp Nicolai (1597) |
| Translator: | Catherine Winkworth (1863, alt.) |
| Meter: | 887.887.48.48 |
| Language: | English |
| Publication Date: | 1998 |
| Scripture: | |
| Topic: | Jesus Christ: Epiphany and Infancy |
| Source: | St. 2, tr. Lutheran Book of Worship, 1978, alt. |
| Copyright: | Tr., st.2 © Lutheran Book of Worship by permission of Augsburg Fortress |
| Tune Information | |
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| Name: | WIE SCHÖN LEUCHTET |
| Composer: | Phillip Nicolai (1599) |
| Harmonizer: | J. S. Bach (c. 1731) |
| Meter: | 887.887.48.48 |
| Key: | D Major |
Text Information:
Written by German Lutheran Nicolai during a period in which a plague was raging in Westphalia, this hymn is known as 'the Queen of the Chorales'
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