Christum wir sollen loben schon
Christum wir sollen loben schon. Martin Luther* (1483-1546).
This hymn was first published in Eyn Enchiridion oder Handbuchlein (Erfurt, 1524) with the title ‘Der Hymnus. A solis ortu’. It had eight 4-line stanzas. It is Luther’s version of ‘A solis ortus cardine’* by Sedulius* (cf. ‘Was fürchtst du, Feind Herodes, sehr’*). It is found in Wackernagel, Das Deutsche Kirchenlied, III. 13, and in Jenny, Luthers geistliche Lieder, no. 16, pp. 210-12; it is not in...
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. "Christum wir sollen loben schon."
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