LOB SEI DEM ALLMÄCHTIGEN GOTT (Crüger)

Composer: Johann Crüger

Johann Crüger (b. Grossbriesen, near Guben, Prussia, Germany, 1598; d. Berlin, Germany, 1662) Crüger attended the Jesuit College at Olmutz and the Poets' School in Regensburg, and later studied theology at the University of Wittenberg. He moved to Berlin in 1615, where he published music for the rest of his life. In 1622 he became the Lutheran cantor at the St. Nicholas Church and a teacher for the Gray Cloister. He wrote music instruction manuals, the best known of which is Synopsis musica (1630), and tirelessly promoted congregational singing. With his tunes he often included elaborate accompaniment for various instruments. Crüger's hymn collection, Neues vollkomliches Gesangbuch (1640), was one of the first hymnals to include figure… Go to person page >

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Tune Information

Title:	LOB SEI DEM ALLMÄCHTIGEN GOTT (Crüger)
Composer:	Johann Crüger (1640)
Meter:	8.8.8.8
Incipit:	11235 43251 76554
Key:	D Major
Copyright:	Public Domain

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Texts

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Arrangements

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Harmonizations, Introductions, Descants, Intonations

Free Harmonizations of Hymn Tunes: Volume II
Composer/Editor D. DeWitt Wasson
Published By: Hinshaw Music, Inc. (1986) pp. 64
The Concordia Hymn Prelude Series Volume 15: Lesser Festivals: K - Z
Composer/Editors Herbert Gotsch; Kenneth T. Kosche
Published By: Concordia Publishing House (1983) pp. 21

Organ Solo

The Organist's Companion Volume 42 Number 1 November 2019 General, Advent, Christmas, Epiphany: A Bi-monthly Journal of Quality Organ Music for the Practical Church Musician
Composer/Editors Wayne Leupold; Johann Gottfried Walther
Published By: Wayne Leupold Editions, Inc. (2019) pp. 26
The Concordia Hymn Prelude Series Volume 15: Lesser Festivals: K - Z
Composer/Editors Herbert Gotsch; Kenneth T. Kosche
Published By: Concordia Publishing House (1983) pp. 20
Hymn Preludes for the Liturgical Year Volume XX Pilgrimage Conflict and Victory: For Organ in 24 Volumes Opus 100
Composer/Editor Flor Peeters
Published By: C. F. Peters Corporation (1969) pp. 6
Seventy-nine Chorales for the Organ Opus 28
Composer/Editor Marcel Dupre
Published By: The H. W. Gray Company, Inc. (1932) pp. 63