Dank, ewig Dank sei deiner Liebe

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Dank, ewig Dank sei deiner Liebe

Author: Johann C. Lavater; Author: Georg Joachim Zollikofer
Tune: O DASS ICH TAUSEND ZUNGEN HÄTTE (König)
Published in 13 hymnals

Piano/Organ
	Easy Organ Library, Vol. 52

Author: Johann C. Lavater

Lavater, Johann Caspar, son of Johann Heinrich Lavater, physician in Zürich, was born at Zürich, Nov. 15, 1741. He entered the Academic Gymnasium at Zürich in 1758, and in the end of 1759 began his studies in its theological department. After completing his course he was ordained in the spring of 1762, but did not undertake any regular clerical work till April 1769, when he was appointed diaconus of the Orphanage church at Zürich, where he became pastor in 1775. In July 1778 he was appointed diaconus of St. Peter's church, and in Dec. 1786 pastor there. When, during the Revolutionary period, the French laid the Swiss Cantons under contribution, and then in April 1799 deported ten of the principal citizens of Zürich, Lavater felt compel… Go to person page >

Author: Georg Joachim Zollikofer

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Text Information

First Line:	Dank, ewig Dank sei deiner Liebe
Author:	Georg Joachim Zollikofer
Author:	Johann C. Lavater
Language:	German
Copyright:	Public Domain

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O DASS ICH TAUSEND ZUNGEN HÄTTE (König)

Johann Balthaser König (b. Waltershausen, near Gotha, Germany, 1691; d. Frankfurt, Germany, 1758) composed this tune, which later became associated with Johann Mentzer's hymn "O dass ich tausend Zungen hätte" (Oh, That I Had a Thousand Voices). The harmonization is from the Wurttembergische Choral…

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