Английская Википедия:Georg Weissel
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Infobox person Georg Weissel (1590 – 1 August 1635) was a German Lutheran minister and hymn writer.
Born in Domnau in Ducal Prussia, a vassal of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Weissel studied theology and music at the University of Königsberg, with the musicians Johann Eccard and Johann Stobäus, among others. After working as a rector in Friedland, he was ordained as minister of the Altrossgarten Church in Königsberg on the second Sunday in Advent 1623.
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23 of his songs, written following the rules of Opitz, are extant. His most popular hymn was written on the occasion of the inauguration of the Altrossgarten Church in 1623. The Advent hymn "Macht hoch die Tür", paraphrasing Psalm 24, begins the current Protestant hymnal Evangelisches Gesangbuch (EG).[1] It is now present in most Christian hymnal including the Catholic Gotteslob (GL 218). The current Protestant hymnal has two more of his hymns, "Шаблон:Lang" (EG 113) and "Шаблон:Lang" (EG 346), which he wrote on the occasion of his ordination in Königsberg.
Catherine Winkworth translated the Advent hymn in 1853 as "Lift up your heads, ye mighty gates". Johann Sebastian Bach used Weissel's hymn "Шаблон:Lang" in Part V of his Christmas Oratorio.
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Literature
- Johannes Block: Georg Weissel. In: Wolfgang Herbst (ed.): Шаблон:Lang Göttingen 1999
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- Werner Krause: Шаблон:Lang. Verlag der St. Johannis-Druckerei, Lahr-Dinglingen 1900 (4th edition. 2004). Шаблон:ISBN.
- ↑ Evangelisches Gesangbuch (EG) Nr. 1, Gotteslob (GL) No. 218