Nun jauchzet, all ihr Frommen

Nun jauchzet, all ihr Frommen.  Michael Schirmer* (1606-1673). Published by Johann Crüger*, Schirmer’s colleague at the Greyfriars Cloister and Gymnasium, Berlin, in his Newes vollkömliches Gesangbuch/ Augspurgischer Confession (Berlin, 1640). It was in the Advent section, where it was entitled ‘Ein ander schön Adventliedlein. M. Michael Schirmers’. The ‘ander’ refers to ‘Macht hoch die Tür, die Tor macht weit’*, with which it is presumably to be compared and contrasted. It is found in the Advent section of EG in six 8-line stanzas, beginning: Nun jauchzet, all ihr Frommen, zu dieser Gnadenzeit, weil unser Heil ist kommen, der Herr der Herrlichkeit, zwar ohne stolze Pracht, doch mächtig, zu...

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