Verzage nicht, du Häuflein klein
Verzage nicht, du Häuflein klein. Jakob Fabricius* (1593-1654). This remarkable piece of history was printed on a broadsheet to be sung by the army at morning prayers before the battle of Lützen on 16 November 1632. It was printed in two pamphlets at Leipzig shortly after the battle, Epicidion and Blutige Siegs-Crone (1632/33) in three stanzas. In J. Clauder’s Psalmodiae Novae Pars Tertia (Leipzig, 1636), two more stanzas were added by an unknown hand. It is found in EG (in the ‘Sammlung und Sendung’ section) in these five verses (EG 249).
The authorship of this hymn in its three-verse form is given in EG as Fabricius. In JJ it was given as Johann Michael Altenburg* (pp. 54-5). Altenburg is...
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