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We lift our hearts, O Father
Author: E. A. Welch, 1860-1932 Meter: 7.6.7.6 Appears in 4 hymnals Topics: Times and Occasions Home Used With Tune: CHRISTUS DER IST MEIN LEBEN
We lift our hearts, O Father
CHRISTUS DER IST MEIN LEBEN
Meter: 7.6.7.6 Appears in 312 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: J.S. Bach, 1685 - 1750 Tune Sources: Melody from Melchior Vulpius' 'Ein Schon Geistlich Gesangbuch' Jena 1609 Tune Key: E Flat Major Incipit: 13234 53654 32356 Used With Text: We lift our hearts, O Father
CHRISTUS DER IST MEIN LEBEN
ST. ALPHEGE
Meter: 7.6.7.6 Appears in 139 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: H. J. Gauntlett Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 13451 71171 43213 Used With Text: We lift our hearts, O Father
ST. ALPHEGE
WE LIFT OUR HEARTS
Meter: 7.6.7.6 Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Carl Schalk, 1929- Tune Key: e minor Incipit: 12327 11144 34234 Used With Text: We Lift Our Hearts, O Father
WE LIFT OUR HEARTS
We Lift Our Hearts, O Father
Author: Edward Ashurst Welch, 1860-1932 Hymnal: Worship Supplement #780 (1969) Meter: 7.6.7.6 Lyrics: 1 We lift our hearts, O Father,
To thee our voices raise,
For these thy suppliant servants
in mingled prayer and praise:
2 Praise for the joy of loving,
All other joys above,
Praise for the priceless blessing
Of love's response to love;
3 Prayer that the glad surrender
Of self may perfect be,
That each be one with other,
An both be one in thee;
4 Prayer that thou wilt accomplish
The promise of today
And crown the years with blessing
That shall not pass away;
5 Praise for the hope most glorious
That looks beyond the veil,
Where faith and hope shall vanish,
But love shall never fail. Topics: The Church Marriage Tune Title: WE LIFT OUR HEARTS
We Lift Our Hearts, O Father
We lift our hearts, O Father
Author: E. A. Welch, 1860-1932 Hymnal: The Book of Praise #581 (1972) Meter: 7.6.7.6 Topics: Times and Occasions Home Languages: English Tune Title: CHRISTUS DER IST MEIN LEBEN
We lift our hearts, O Father
We lift our hearts, O Father
Author: Canon Edward A. Welch Hymnal: The Book of Common Praise #261 (1939) Meter: 7.6.7.6 Topics: Holy Matrimony Tune Title: ST. ALPHEGE
We lift our hearts, O Father
Johann Sebastian Bach
1685 - 1750 Person Name: J.S. Bach, 1685 - 1750 Adapter & Harmonizer of "CHRISTUS DER IST MEIN LEBEN" in The Book of Praise Johann Sebastian Bach was born at Eisenach into a musical family and in a town steeped in Reformation history, he received early musical training from his father and older brother, and elementary education in the classical school Luther had earlier attended.
Throughout his life he made extraordinary efforts to learn from other musicians. At 15 he walked to Lüneburg to work as a chorister and study at the convent school of St. Michael. From there he walked 30 miles to Hamburg to hear Johann Reinken, and 60 miles to Celle to become familiar with French composition and performance traditions. Once he obtained a month's leave from his job to hear Buxtehude, but stayed nearly four months. He arranged compositions from Vivaldi and other Italian masters. His own compositions spanned almost every musical form then known (Opera was the notable exception).
In his own time, Bach was highly regarded as organist and teacher, his compositions being circulated as models of contrapuntal technique. Four of his children achieved careers as composers; Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, and Chopin are only a few of the best known of the musicians that confessed a major debt to Bach's work in their own musical development. Mendelssohn began re-introducing Bach's music into the concert repertoire, where it has come to attract admiration and even veneration for its own sake.
After 20 years of successful work in several posts, Bach became cantor of the Thomas-schule in Leipzig, and remained there for the remaining 27 years of his life, concentrating on church music for the Lutheran service: over 200 cantatas, four passion settings, a Mass, and hundreds of chorale settings, harmonizations, preludes, and arrangements. He edited the tunes for Schemelli's Musicalisches Gesangbuch, contributing 16 original tunes. His choral harmonizations remain a staple for studies of composition and harmony. Additional melodies from his works have been adapted as hymn tunes.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Henry J. Gauntlett
1805 - 1876 Person Name: H. J. Gauntlett Composer of "ST. ALPHEGE" in The Book of Common Praise Henry J. Gauntlett (b. Wellington, Shropshire, July 9, 1805; d. London, England, February 21, 1876) When he was nine years old, Henry John Gauntlett (b. Wellington, Shropshire, England, 1805; d. Kensington, London, England, 1876) became organist at his father's church in Olney, Buckinghamshire. At his father's insistence he studied law, practicing it until 1844, after which he chose to devote the rest of his life to music. He was an organist in various churches in the London area and became an important figure in the history of British pipe organs. A designer of organs for William Hill's company, Gauntlett extended the organ pedal range and in 1851 took out a patent on electric action for organs. Felix Mendelssohn chose him to play the organ part at the first performance of Elijah in Birmingham, England, in 1846. Gauntlett is said to have composed some ten thousand hymn tunes, most of which have been forgotten. Also a supporter of the use of plainchant in the church, Gauntlett published the Gregorian Hymnal of Matins and Evensong (1844).
Bert Polman
Henry J. Gauntlett
Carl Schalk
1929 - 2021 Person Name: Carl Schalk, 1929- Composer of "WE LIFT OUR HEARTS" in Worship Supplement Carl F. Schalk (b. Des Plaines, IL, 1929; d. 2021) is professor of music emeritus at Concordia University, River Forest, Illinois, where he taught church music since 1965. He completed graduate work at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, and at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Missouri. From 1952 to 1956 he taught and directed music at Zion Lutheran Church in Wausau, Wisconsin, and from 1958 to 1965 served as director of music for the International Lutheran Hour. Honored as a Fellow of the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada in 1992, Schalk was editor of the Church Music journal (1966-1980), a member of the committee that prepared the Lutheran Book of Worship (1978), and a widely published composer of church music. Included in his publications are The Roots of Hymnody in The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (1965), Key Words in Church Music (1978), and Luther on Music: Paradigms of Praise (1988). His numerous hymn tunes and carols are collected in the Carl Schalk Hymnary (1989) and its 1991 Supplement.
Bert Polman
Carl Schalk
