Der Tag ist um, die Nacht kehrt wieder

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Der Tag ist um, die Nacht kehrt wieder

Author: John Ellerton (1870); Translator: Karl Albrecht Höppl (1958)
Tune: LES COMANDEMENS DE DIEU
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	Music for a Celebration, Set 4

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Author: John Ellerton

John Ellerton (b. London, England, 1826; d. Torquay, Devonshire, England, 1893) Educated at King William's College on the Isle of Man and at Trinity College, Cambridge, England, he was ordained in the Church of England in 1851. He served six parishes, spending the longest time in Crewe Green (1860-1872), a church of steelworkers and farmers. Ellerton wrote and translated about eighty hymns, many of which are still sung today. He helped to compile Church Hymns and wrote its handbook, Notes and Illustrations to Church Hymns (1882). Some of his other hymn texts were published in The London Mission Hymn Book (1884). Bert Polman… Go to person page >

Translator: Karl Albrecht Höppl

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First Line:	Der Tag ist um, die Nacht kehrt wieder
English Title:	The day Thou gavest, Lord, is ended
Translator:	Karl Albrecht Höppl (1958)
Author:	John Ellerton (1870)
Language:	German
Copyright:	Tr. © Karl Albrecht Höppl

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LES COMANDEMENS DE DIEU

LES COMMANDEMENS (French for "the commandments"), a rich and graceful tune in the Hypo-Ionian mode (major), was used in the Genevan Psalter (1547) for the Decalogue and for Psalm 140, and later in British psalters and in the Lutheran tradition. The first setting in the Psalter Hymnal derives from Cl…

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