DAS HERRLICH HOHE FEST

DAS HERRLICH HOHE FEST

Composer: Christoph Peter (ca. 1674)
Published in 3 hymnals


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Composer: Christoph Peter

Born: 1626 - Weida, Vogtland, Thuringia, Germany Died: December 4, 1669 - Guben Christoph Peter [Petraeus] was a German composer and music editor. His first appointment was as schoolmaster and Kantor at Grossenhain, Saxony. He moved in 1655 to Guben, where he was Kantor until his death. He worked closely there with the poet and civic official Johann Franck. 40 melodies in the latter’s Geistliches Sion (1672), the first part of his Teutsche Gedichte, are by Peter, and he referred to Peter’s skills in the second part, Irdischer Helicon (1674). Peter’s Andachts-Zymbeln is an anthology of chorales by various composers which also contains preliminary instructional matter, a letter of 1524 from Martin Luther to Spalatin, and testimonial… Go to person page >

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Title: DAS HERRLICH HOHE FEST
Composer: Christoph Peter (ca. 1674)
Meter: 6.6.6.6.6.6.8
Incipit: 13571 13176 72223
Key: C Major
Copyright: Public Domain

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Small Church Music #5126

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The Cyber Hymnal #4204

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