Lord, how grievous is my sinning!

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Lord, how grievous is my sinning!

Translator: Friedrich Zuchtmann; Author: Johann Franck (1677)
Tune: HERR, ICH HABE MISGEHANDELT (Crüger)
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Translator: Friedrich Zuchtmann

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Author: Johann Franck

Johann Franck (b. Guben, Brandenburg, Germany, 1618; d. Guben, 1677) was a law student at the University of Köningsberg and practiced law during the Thirty Years' War. He held several positions in civil service, including councillor and mayor of Guben. A significant poet, second only to Paul Gerhardt in his day, Franck wrote some 110 hymns, many of which were published by his friend Johann Crüger in various editions of the Praxis Pietatis melica. All were included in the first part of Franck’s Teutsche Gedichte bestehend im geistliche Sion (1672). Bert Polman… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Lord, how grievous is my sinning!
German Title:	Herr, ich habe missgehandelt
Author:	Johann Franck (1677)
Translator:	Friedrich Zuchtmann
Language:	English

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HERR, ICH HABE MISGEHANDELT (Crüger)

Johann Crüger (PHH 42) composed HERR, ICH HABE MISGEHANDELT for a hymn text of the same name by Johann Franck and then published the two together in his Geistliche Kirchen-Melodien (1649), a collection of psalms and hymns set for four voices, two instruments, and continuo. The tune has appeared in…

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