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In Gottes Namen fang ich an

Author: Salomo Liscow Appears in 19 hymnals Topics: Glaube - Liebe - Hoffnung Arbeit Scripture: Luke 5:4-7 Used With Tune: [In Gottes Namen fang ich an]

Appears in 6 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Johann Crüger Tune Sources: Nach "Nun saget Dank und lobt den Herren" (Nr. 294) Tune Key: F Major or modal Incipit: 16514 33253 14321 Used With Text: In Gottes Namen fang ich an

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In Gottes Namen fang ich an

Author: Salomo Liscow Hymnal: Evangelisches Gesangbuch #494 (2014) Topics: Glaube - Liebe - Hoffnung Arbeit Scripture: Luke 5:4-7 Tune Title: [In Gottes Namen fang ich an]

In Gottes Namen fang ich an

Author: S. Liscov, 1640-1689 Hymnal: Evang.-Lutherisches Gesangbuch #564 (1872) Lyrics: 1 In Gottes Namen fang ich an, was mir zu thun gebühret. Mit Gott wird Alles wohlgethan, und glücklich ausgeführet. Was man in Gottes Namen thut, ist allen halben recht und gut, und kann uns auch gedeihen. 2 Gott ist's, der das Vermögen schafft, was Gutes zu vollbringen. Er giebt uns Segen, Muth und Kraft, und läßt das Werk gelingen, daß uns ein reicher Zug entsteht, und dergestalt zur Nahrung geht, daß wir Genüge haben. 3 Wer erst nach Gottes Reiche tracht't, und bleibt auf seinen Wegen, der wird gar leichtlich reich gemacht durch Gottes milden Segen; da wird der Fromme voll und satt, daß er von seiner Arbeit hat auch Armen Brod zu geben. 4 Gott ist der Frommen Schild und Lohn, er krönet sie mit Gnaden; der bösen Welt ihr Neid und Hohn kann ihnen gar nicht schaden. Gott decket sie mit seiner Hand, er segnet ihre Stadt, ihr Land, und füllet sie mit Freuden. 5 Drum komm, Herr Jesu, stärke mich, hilf mir in meinen Werken; laß du mit deiner Gnade dich bei meiner Arbeit merken. Gieb dein Gedeihen selbst dazu, daß ich in Allem, was ich thu, ererbe deinen Segen. 6 Regiere mich durch deinen Geist, den Müßiggang zu meiden, daß das, was du mich schaffen heißt, gescheh mit lauter Freuden; auf daß ich dir mit aller Treu auf dein Gebot gehorsam sein, und meinen Nächsten liebe. 7 Nun, Jesu, komm und bleib bei mir; die Werke meiner Hände befehl ich liebster Heiland, dir; hilf, das ich sie vollende zu deines Namens Herrlickeit, und gieb, das ich zur Abendzeit erwünschten Lohn empfange. Topics: Standes- und Berufslieder; State and Profession Songs Languages: German

In Gottes Namen fang ich an

Author: Salomo Liscov Hymnal: Glaubens-Lieder #d245 (1890) Languages: German

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Johann Crüger

1598 - 1662 Adapter of "[In Gottes Namen fang ich an]" in Evangelisches Gesangbuch 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 figured bass accompaniment (musical shorthand) with the chorale melody rather than full harmonization written out. It included eighteen of Crüger's tunes. His next publication, Praxis Pietatis Melica (1644), is considered one of the most important collections of German hymnody in the seventeenth century. It was reprinted forty-four times in the following hundred years. Another of his publications, Geistliche Kirchen Melodien (1649), is a collection arranged for four voices, two descanting instruments, and keyboard and bass accompaniment. Crüger also published a complete psalter, Psalmodia sacra (1657), which included the Lobwasser translation set to all the Genevan tunes. Bert Polman =============================== Crüger, Johann, was born April 9, 1598, at Gross-Breese, near Guben, Brandenburg. After passing through the schools at Guben, Sorau and Breslau, the Jesuit College at Olmütz, and the Poets' school at Regensburg, he made a tour in Austria, and, in 1615, settled at Berlin. There, save for a short residence at the University of Wittenberg, in 1620, he employed himself as a private tutor till 1622. In 1622 he was appointed Cantor of St. Nicholas's Church at Berlin, and also one of the masters of the Greyfriars Gymnasium. He died at Berlin Feb. 23, 1662. Crüger wrote no hymns, although in some American hymnals he appears as "Johann Krüger, 1610,” as the author of the supposed original of C. Wesley's "Hearts of stone relent, relent" (q.v.). He was one of the most distinguished musicians of his time. Of his hymn tunes, which are generally noble and simple in style, some 20 are still in use, the best known probably being that to "Nun danket alle Gott" (q.v.), which is set to No. 379 in Hymns Ancient & Modern, ed. 1875. His claim to notice in this work is as editor and contributor to several of the most important German hymnological works of the 16th century, and these are most conveniently treated of under his name. (The principal authorities on his works are Dr. J. F. Bachmann's Zur Geschichte der Berliner Gesangbücher 1857; his Vortrag on P. Gerhard, 1863; and his edition of Gerhardt's Geistliche Lieder, 1866. Besides these there are the notices in Bode, and in R. Eitner's Monatshefte für Musik-Geschichte, 1873 and 1880). These works are:— 1. Newes vollkömmliches Gesangbuch, Augspur-gischer Confession, &c, Berlin, 1640 [Library of St. Nicholas's Church, Berlin], with 248 hymns, very few being published for the first time. 2. Praxis pietatis melica. Das ist: Ubung der Gottseligkeit in Christlichen und trostreichen Gesängen. The history of this, the most important work of the century, is still obscure. The 1st edition has been variously dated 1640 and 1644, while Crüger, in the preface to No. 3, says that the 3rd edition appeared in 1648. A considerable correspondence with German collectors and librarians has failed to bring to light any of the editions which Koch, iv. 102, 103, quotes as 1644, 1647, 1649, 1650, 1651, 1652, 1653. The imperfect edition noted below as probably that of 1648 is the earliest Berlin edition we have been able to find. The imperfect edition, probably ix. of 1659, formerly in the hands of Dr. Schneider of Schleswig [see Mützell, 1858, No. 264] was inaccessible. The earliest perfect Berlin edition we have found is 1653. The edition printed at Frankfurt in 1656 by Caspar Röteln was probably a reprint of a Berlin edition, c. 1656. The editions printed at Frankfurt-am-Main by B. C. Wust (of which the 1666 is in the preface described as the 3rd) are in considerable measure independent works. In the forty-five Berlin and over a dozen Frankfurt editions of this work many of the hymns of P. Gerhardt, J. Franck, P. J. Spener, and others, appear for the first time, and therein also appear many of the best melodies of the period. 3. Geistliche Kirchen-Melodien, &c, Leipzig, 1649 [Library of St. Katherine's Church, Brandenburg]. This contains the first stanzas only of 161 hymns, with music in four vocal and two instrumental parts. It is the earliest source of the first stanzas of various hymns by Gerhardt, Franck, &c. 4. D. M. Luther's und anderer vornehmen geisU reichen und gelehrten Manner Geistliche Lieder und Psalmen, &c, Berlin, 1653 [Hamburg Town Library], with 375 hymns. This was edited by C. Runge, the publisher, and to it Crüger contributed some 37 melodies. It was prepared at the request of Luise Henriette (q.v.), as a book for the joint use of the Lutherans and the Re¬formed, and is the earliest source of the hymns ascribed to her, and of the complete versions of many hymns by Gerhardt and Franck. 5. Psalmodia Sacra, &c, Berlin, 1658 [Royal Library, Berlin]. The first section of this work is in an ed. of A. Lobwasser's German Psalter; the second, with a similar title to No. 4, and the date 1657, is practically a recast of No. 4,146 of those in 1653 being omitted, and the rest of the 319 hymns principally taken from the Praxis of 1656 and the hymn-books of the Bohemian Brethren. New eds. appeared in 1676, 1700, 1704, 1711, and 1736. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] -- Excerpt from John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) ======================= Crüger, Johann, p. 271, ii. Dr. J. Zahn, now of Neuendettelsau, in Bavaria, has recently acquired a copy of the 5th ed., Berlin, 1653, of the Praxis. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

Salomon Liscovius

1640 - 1689 Person Name: Salomo Liscow Author of "In Gottes Namen fang ich an" in Evangelisches Gesangbuch Liscovius, Salomo, son of Johann Liscovius, or Lischkow, pastor at Niemitsch, near Guben, was born at Niemitsch, Oct. 25, 1640. He entered the University of Leipzig in 1660, and then went to Wittenberg, where he graduated M.A., and was crowned as a poet. Shortly thereafter he was appointed pastor at Otterwisch with Stockheim, near Lausigk, and ordained to this post April 21, 1664. He was then, on March 29, 1685, appointed second pastor of St. Wenceslaus's church, at Wurzen. He died at Wurzen, Dec. 5, 1689. (Koch, iii. 385; Rotermund's continuation of Jöcher's Gelehrten-Lexikon, iii. 1950, &c.) Liscovius was one of the best German hymn-writers of the second rank in the 17th century. That is, though his hymns are not lacking in intensity, in depth, or in beauty of form, yet neither by their intrinsic value nor by their adoption into German common use are they worthy to be ranked with the hymns of Gerhardt, Franck, Scheffler and others of this period. They appeared mostly in his Christlicher Frauenzimmers Geistlicher Tugend-Spiegel. The preface to this book is dated April 14, 1672, and it was probably published at Leipzig in 1672; but the earliest ed. extant is that at Leipzig, 1703. Dr. J. L. Pasig pub. 51 of his Geistliche Lieder, with a short biographical notice, at Halle, 1855. One of his hymns is translated:— Schatz über alle Schatze. Love to Christ. His finest hymn. 1672 as above, and Pasig, 1855, p. 53. In the Nürnberg Gesang-Buch 1676, No. 509, and the Berlin Geistlicher Lieder Schatz, ed. 1863, No. 826. It is in 7 stanzas of 8 lines, the initial letters of the stanzas forming his Christian name Salomon. The translations are:— (1) "Treasure above all treasure," as No. 441 in pt. i. of the