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O Lord Jesus, Lamb of God

Author: R. Michael Cullinan Meter: 7.7.7.7 Appears in 2 hymnals

Meter: 7.7.7.7 Appears in 119 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Johann Walther; Johann S. Bach Tune Sources: Enchiridion Oder Handbüchlein, Johann Walther (Wittenberg, Germany: 1524) Tune Key: g minor Incipit: 11732 12112 34345 Used With Text: O Lord Jesus, Lamb of God

O LORD JESUS, LAMB OF GOD

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Alfred Redhead Used With Text: O Lord Jesus, Lamb of God!

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O Lord Jesus, Lamb of God!

Hymnal: Hymns for the Children of the Church #257 (1907) Languages: English Tune Title: O LORD JESUS, LAMB OF GOD

O Lord Jesus, Lamb of God

Author: R. Michael Cullinan Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #5103 Meter: 7.7.7.7 Lyrics: 1. O Lord Jesus, Lamb of God, Bearing such a heavy load; Pain and suffering was Your fate— Anguish, ridicule and hate. 2. Crown of thorns and staff of spite, Must you mock our Sovereign’s might? Know you not whom Pilate brings? Jesus Christ, the King of kings! 3. Road of sorrow, lead the way To redeeming love today. Let me see my Savior’s face; Let me taste this gift of grace. 4. Tree of anguish, bear my sin; Heart of Jesus, let me in. O Lord, may Your wounds make whole Body, spirit and my soul. 5. Cross of triumph lifted high; Christ becomes the victory: Priest and sacrifice today, Washing all our guilt away. Languages: English Tune Title: NUN KOMM

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Johann Sebastian Bach

1685 - 1750 Person Name: Johann S. Bach Harmonizer of "NUN KOMM" in The Cyber Hymnal Johann Sebastian Bach was born at Eisenach into a musical family and in a town steeped in Reformation history, he received early musical training from his father and older brother, and elementary education in the classical school Luther had earlier attended. Throughout his life he made extraordinary efforts to learn from other musicians. At 15 he walked to Lüneburg to work as a chorister and study at the convent school of St. Michael. From there he walked 30 miles to Hamburg to hear Johann Reinken, and 60 miles to Celle to become familiar with French composition and performance traditions. Once he obtained a month's leave from his job to hear Buxtehude, but stayed nearly four months. He arranged compositions from Vivaldi and other Italian masters. His own compositions spanned almost every musical form then known (Opera was the notable exception). In his own time, Bach was highly regarded as organist and teacher, his compositions being circulated as models of contrapuntal technique. Four of his children achieved careers as composers; Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, and Chopin are only a few of the best known of the musicians that confessed a major debt to Bach's work in their own musical development. Mendelssohn began re-introducing Bach's music into the concert repertoire, where it has come to attract admiration and even veneration for its own sake. After 20 years of successful work in several posts, Bach became cantor of the Thomas-schule in Leipzig, and remained there for the remaining 27 years of his life, concentrating on church music for the Lutheran service: over 200 cantatas, four passion settings, a Mass, and hundreds of chorale settings, harmonizations, preludes, and arrangements. He edited the tunes for Schemelli's Musicalisches Gesangbuch, contributing 16 original tunes. His choral harmonizations remain a staple for studies of composition and harmony. Additional melodies from his works have been adapted as hymn tunes. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Johann Walter

1496 - 1570 Person Name: Johann Walther Composer of "NUN KOMM" in The Cyber Hymnal Johann Walther (b. Kahla, Thuringia, Germany, 1496: d. Torgau, Germany, 1570) was one of the great early influences in Lutheran church music. At first he seemed destined to be primarily a court musician. A singer in the choir of the Elector of Saxony in the Torgau court in 1521, he became the court's music director in 1525. After the court orchestra was disbanded in 1530 and reconstituted by the town, Walther became cantor at the local school in 1534 and directed the music in several churches. He served the Elector of Saxony at the Dresden court from 1548 to 1554 and then retired in Torgau. Walther met Martin Luther in 1525 and lived with him for three weeks to help in the preparation of Luther's German Mass. In 1524 Walther published the first edition of a collection of German hymns, Geystliche gesangk Buchleyn. This collection and several later hymnals compiled by Walther went through many later editions and made a permanent impact on Lutheran hymnody. Bert Polman ================ Walther, Johann, was born in 1496 at a village near Cola (perhaps Kahla, or else Colleda, near Sachsenburg) in Thuringia. In 1524 we find him at Torgau, as bassist at the court of Friedrich the Wise, Elector of Saxony. The Elector Johann of Saxony made him "Sengermeister" (choirmaster) in 1526. When the Electoral orchestra (Kapelle) at Torgau was disbanded in 1530, it was reconstituted by the town, and in 1534 Walther was also appointed cantor (singing-master) to the school at Torgau. On the accession of the Elector Moritz of Saxony, in 1548, Walther went with him to Dresden as his Kapellmeister. He was pensioned by decree of Aug. 7, 1554, and soon after returned to Torgau, still retaining the title of "Sengermeister." He died at Torgau, perhaps on March 25, or at least before April 24, 1570. (Monatshefte für Musikgeschichte, 1871, p. 8, and 1878, p. 85; Archiv für Litteraturgeschichte, vol. xii., 1884, p. 185; Dr. Otto Taubert's Pflege der Musilz in Torgau, 1868, and his Gymnasial Singe-Chor zu Torgau, n.d., 1870, &c.) Walther was more distinguished as a musician than as a hymnwriter. In 1524 he spent three weeks in Luther's house at Wittenberg, helping to adapt the old church music to the Lutheran services, and harmonising the tunes in five parts for the Geystliche gesangk Bucklyn, published at Wittenberg in 1524. He was also present in the Stadtkirche at Wittenberg, when, on Oct. 29, 1525, the service for the Holy Communion, as rearranged by Luther and himself, was first used in German. His hymns appeared mostly in his Das christlich Kinderlied D. Martini Lutheri, Erhalt uns Herr, &c. Auffs new in sechs Stimmen gesetzt, und rait etlichen schönen Christlichen Texten, Lateinischen und Teutschen Gesengen gemehrt, &c, Wittenberg. Those of Walther's hymns which have passed into English are:— i. Herzlich Lieb hab ich dich, mein Gott. Trinity Sunday. First published in 1566 as above, and thence in Wackernage, iii. p. 204, in 4 stanzas of 8 lines. Translated as:— 0 God, my Rock! my heart on Thee. This is a good translation of stanza i., iii., iv., by A. T. Russell, as No. 133 in his Psalms & Hymns, 1851. ii. Herzlich thut mich erfreuen. Eternal Life. First published separately, in 33 stanzas, at Wittenberg, in 1552, entitled "A beautiful spiritual and Christian new miner's song, of the Last Day and Eternal Life" [Konigsberg Library]. Thence in Wackernagel, iii. p. 187, in 34 stanzas, stanza 33 being added from the Dresden reprint of 1557. It is set to the melody of a popular song on the Joys of Summer. It is a fresh and beautiful hymn, but is only partially available on account of its length. Translated as:— 1. Now fain my joyous heart would sing. This is a translation of stanza 1, 4, 5, 17, 33, 34, by Miss Winkworth, in her Lyra Germanica 2nd Ser., 1858, p. 223. Her translations of stanzas 1, 4, 5, were included in the English Presbyterian Psalms & Hymns, 1867, No. 325. 2. Soon will the heavenly Bridegroom come. This is by Dr. Kennedy, in his Hymn. Christanza, 1863, No. 1009, and follows the text of the Geistliche Lieder omitting stanza 16, 18, 13. It is repeated in the Laudes Domini, N. Y., 1884, &c. 3. The Bridegroom soon will call us. By Dr. M. Loy, from the Geistliche Lieder, but omitting stanzas 18, 13, as No. 24 in the Ohio Lutheran Hymnal, 1880. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A. ] --Excerpts from John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

R. Michael Cullinan

b. 1937 Author of "O Lord Jesus, Lamb of God" in The Cyber Hymnal Robert George Cullinan [Michael Cullinan] Born: November 22, 1937, Dearborn, Michigan. Cullinan prepared for the ministry of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod at Concordia Theological Seminary in Springfield, Illinois. He was ordained in 1964, and served parishes both in Oswego, Kansas, and Westland, Michigan. After half a dozen years as a Lutheran pastor, he left the parish ministry to work on a master’s degree in Guidance and Counseling at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. He continued with post-Master’s courses there, and served on the academic faculty. Cullinan continued to feel drawn to the ministry, though, even after a decade or so in academia. That sense of calling and a certain wanderlust enticed him west, where he joined a small Church of the East monastery in southern California. There he was ordained as a priest on the Feast of the Dormition, August 15, 1982, and took the religious name of Michael. That community ultimately disbanded, and several years later, Cullinan and other priests organized the Holy Incarnation Monastery in Alpine, California. This small group of brothers involved itself in the ministry of prayer and charitable services. Cullinan himself worked among developmentally disabled adults. After a few years in Alpine, it became evident California was too expensive a place for those few monks to live frugally, and the monastery disbanded. Cullinan stayed in the San Diego area for a couple of years, living the life of an ascetic on Mount Palomar. In 1993, he left for Oregon, where he began working among adults with developmental disabilities. During this time, he wrote several hymns while serving as priest for a local Anglican parish. www.hymntime.com/tch