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Hüter, ist die Nacht verschwunden?
Appears in 35 hymnals Used With Tune: [Hüter, ist die Nacht verschwunden?]
Hüter, ist die Nacht verschwunden?
[Hüter, ist die Nacht verschwunden?]
Appears in 146 hymnals Incipit: 51312 11616 55611 Used With Text: Hüter, ist die Nacht verschwunden?
[Hüter, ist die Nacht verschwunden?]
[Hüter! ist die Nacht verschwunden?]
Appears in 60 hymnals Incipit: 11313 35325 31712 Used With Text: Hüter! ist die Nacht verschwunden?
[Hüter! ist die Nacht verschwunden?]
[Hüter, ist die Nacht verschwunden]
Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Knecht Incipit: 54321 23432 34565 Used With Text: Hüter, ist die Nacht verschwunden
[Hüter, ist die Nacht verschwunden]
Hueter! is die Nacht verschwunden?
Author: Christian Gottlob Barth Hymnal: Deutsches Gesang- und Choralbuch #a216 (1874) Languages: German
Hueter! is die Nacht verschwunden?
Hueter, is die Nacht verschwunden
Author: Christian G. Barth Hymnal: Evangelisches Gesangbuch #131 (1850) Languages: German
Hueter, is die Nacht verschwunden
Hueter, is die Nacht verschwunden
Author: Christian G. Barth Hymnal: Evangelisches Gesangbuch #131 (1850) Languages: German
Hueter, is die Nacht verschwunden
Christian Gottlob Barth
1799 - 1862 Person Name: Dr. Christ. Gottlob Barth Author of "Hüter! ist die Nacht verschwunden?" in Gesangbuch mit Noten Barth, Christian Gottlob, son of C. F. Barth, house painter in Stuttgart, was born at Stuttgart, July 31,1799. He studied at Tubingen, where he was the principal founder of the Missionary Society, and was only restrained by his mother's entreaties from offering himself as a missionary. He became, in 1821, assistant at Neckarweihingen and Dornham, and, in 1822, curate in charge of Effringen and Schönbrunn, near Nagold. In 1824 he was appointed pastor of Möttlingen, near Calw, but resigned his charge in 1838, and settled in Calw, receiving in the same year the degree of D.D. from the University.of Greifswald. He died at Calw of apoplexy, Nov. 12, 1862. At Calw he devoted himself as a writer and preacher to children, as a preacher and writer in the cause of missions to the heathen and to the Jews, and as the founder and director of the Tract Society of Calw. One of his books, the Bible History, reached its 160th edition in 1872, and had then been translated into 24 European, 18 Asiatic, 7 African, and 3 South Sea languages. He frequently attended the meetings of the Religious Tract Society of London, and was a member of the Evangelical Alliance (Koch, vii. 199-210; Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, ii. 94-95). Of his hymns there have been translated into English:—
i. Auf einem Berg ein Baumlein stand. [Holy Scripture]. Included in his Lieder und Gedichte fur Christenkinder, Calw, 1842, p. 83, in 4 stanzas. Previously in J. Köbner's Christl. Harfentöne, Hamburg, 1840, p. 115. The translations are:—
(1) "Upon a hill there stands a tree," by Dr. H. Mills, 1845 (1856, p. 25), and thence in P. Stow's Ocean Melodies, Boston, U.S., 1849. (2) "A tree grows on a mountain," by Mrs. Bevan, 1859, p. 138. (3) "A tree stood on a mountain," in Dr. H. W. Dulcken's Golden Harp, 1864, p. 22. (4) " On a hill stands a beautiful tree," in W. B. Bradbury's Fresh Laurels, N. Y., 1867, p. 15, signed "L. W." (5) " Lo, on a mount a tree doth stand," by Mrs. H. K. Spaeth, as No. 60 in the Pennsylvania Lutheran Little Children's Book, Philadelphia, 1885.
ii. Erhebe dich, du Volk des Herrn. [Missions.] Written for the Basel Mission Festival, June 12, 1833, In his Christliche Gedichte, Stuttgart, 1836, p. 18, in 8 stanzas. Translated as “Ye people of the Lord, arise!" by Dr. H. Mills, 1856, p. 202.
iii. Hütter, ist die Nacht verschwtinden. [Missions.] Written for the 20th anniversary, June 27,1835, of the Basel Missionary Society, and first published in the Mission Magazine for that year. In his Christliche Gedichte, Stuttgart, 1836, p. 54, in 8 stanzas. The translations are:—
(1) "Ho! watchman, is the night away," by Dr. G. Walker, 1860, p. 84. (2) "Watchman! Hath the night departed," in L. Rehfuess's Church at Sea, 1868, p. 107. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.]
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
Christian Gottlob Barth
Justin Heinrich Knecht
1752 - 1817 Person Name: Heinr. Knecht Composer of "[Hüter! ist die Nacht verschwunden?]" in Gesangbuch der Evangelischen Gemeinschaft Justin Heinrich Knecht Germany 1752-1817. Born at Biberach Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, he attended a Lutheran college in Esslingen am Neckar from 1768-1771. Having learned the organ, keyboard, violin and oratory, he became a Lutheran preceptor (professor of literature) and music director in Biberach. It was a free imperial city until 1803 and had a rich cultural life. He became organist of St. Martin’s Church in 1792, used by both Lutherans and Catholics, and was there for many years. He led an energetic, busy musical life, composing for both the theatre and church, organizing subscription concerts, teaching music theory, acoustics, aesthetics, composition, and instruments at the Gymnasium, affiliated to the Musikschule in 1806. He went to Stuttgart in 1806 in hopes of a post there as Kapellmeister, serving two years as Konzertmeister, but he was appointed Direktor Beim Orchester by the King of Wurttemberg in 1807. However, he returned to his former life in 1808 and remained there the rest of his life. He died at Biberach. He wrote 10 vocals, 11 opera and stage works, one symphony, 3 chamber music instrumentals, 7 organ works, 4 piano works, and 6 music theories. He was an author composer, editor, contributor, musician, compiler, and lyricist.
John Perry
Justin Heinrich Knecht
