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Dir, Gott, will ich fröhlich singen

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Author: Ehrenfried Liebich

Liebich, Ehrenfried, was born July 15, 1713, at Probsthain, near Goldberg, Silesia, where his father was a miller. He assisted his father in the mill up to his sixteenth year, and was thereafter allowed to study at the Latin school at Schweidnitz, and the St. Elisabeth school at Breslau. At Easter, 1738, he entered the University of Leipzig as a student of Theology, and on concluding his course in 1740, was for some time engaged in private tuition. In April, 1742, he became pastor at Lomnitz and Erdmannsdorf, near Hirschberg, Silesia, and remained there till his death on June 23, 1780 (Koch, vi. 391; Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, xviii. 584, &c). Liebich is one of the best German hymn-writers of the middle of the 18th century; Scriptura… Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: Dir, Gott, will ich fröhlich singen
Author: Ehrenfried Liebich
Language: German
Copyright: Public Domain

Tune

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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AUS GNADEN SOLL ICH SELIG WERDEN


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Ausgewaehlte Psalmen und Lieder fuer kirchlichen und haeuslichen Gebrauch #d53

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Das Geistliche Saitenspiel #326

Deutsches Gesangbuch der Bisch. Methodisten-Kirche #d87

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Die Psalmen Davids #540

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Evangelisches Gesangbuch mit vierstimmigen Melodien #148[527]

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Evangelisches Gesangbuch #341

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Evangelisches Gesangbuch #341

Gesangbuch der Evangelischen Gemeinschaft für öffentlichen und häuslichen Gottesdienst #d104

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Gesangbuch der Evangelischen Gemeinschaft #37

Poetischer Himmelsweg, oder kleine, geistliche Lieder Sammlung ... 1. Aufl. #d40

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