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A Mighty Fortress Is Our God
Author: Omer Westendorf; Martin Luther; Frederick Henry Hedge Meter: 8.7.8.7.6.6.6.6.7 Appears in 4 hymnals First Line: A mighty fortress is our God, A bulwark never failing (Westendorf)
A Mighty Fortress Is Our God
EIN' FESTE BURG (RHYTHMIC)
Meter: 8.7.8.7.6.6.6.6.7 Appears in 641 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Martin Luther; Hans Leo Hassler, 1564-1612 Tune Key: C Major Incipit: 11156 71765 17656 Used With Text: A Mighty Fortress Is Our God
EIN' FESTE BURG (RHYTHMIC)
A Mighty Fortress Is Our God
Author: Omer Westendorf; Frederick Henry Hedge; Martin Luther Hymnal: The Presbyterian Hymnal #259 (1990) Meter: 8.7.8.7.6.6.6.6.7 Scripture: Psalm 46 Languages: English Tune Title: EIN' FESTE BURG (RHYTHMIC)
A Mighty Fortress Is Our God
A Mighty Fortress
Author: Omer Westendorf, 1916-1997; Martin Luther, 1483-1546; Frederick H. Hedge, 1805-1890 Hymnal: One in Faith #732 (2015) Meter: 8.7.8.7.6.6.6.6.7 First Line: A mighty fortress is our God Topics: Faith Scripture: Psalm 46 Languages: English Tune Title: EIN FESTE BURG
A Mighty Fortress
A Mighty Fortress Is Our God
Author: Frederic H. Hedge; Martin Luther; J. Clifford Evers Hymnal: The Worshipbook #276 (1972) Meter: Irregular Topics: Service for the Lord's Day Opening of Worship; Acts of the Church Witness to the Resurrection—Funeral; Acts of the Church Ordination; Acts of the Church Installation; Civil Year Memorial Day; Civil Year Independence Day; Other Observances Reformation Day; Other Observances World Peace Scripture: Psalm 46 Tune Title: EIN' FESTE BURG
A Mighty Fortress Is Our God
Hans Leo Hassler
1564 - 1612 Person Name: Hans Leo Hassler, 1564-1612 Harmonizer of "EIN' FESTE BURG (RHYTHMIC)" in The Presbyterian Hymnal Hans Leo Hassler Germany 1564-1612. Born at Nuremberg, Germany, he came from a family of famous musicians and received early education from his father. He then studied in Venice, Italy, with Andrea Gabrieli, uncle of Giovanni Gabrieli, his friend, with whom he composed a wedding motet. The uncle taught him to play the organ. He learned the polychoral style and took it back to Germany after Andrea Gabrieli's death. He served as organist and composer for Octavian Fugger, the princely art patron of Augsburg (1585-1601). He was a prolific composer but found his influence limited, as he was Protestant in a still heavily Catholic region. In 1602 he became director of town music and organist in the Frauenkirche in Nuremberg until 1608. He married Cordula Claus in 1604. He was finally court musician for the Elector of Saxony in Dresden, Germany, evenually becoming Kapellmeister (1608-1612). A Lutheran, he composed both for Roman Catholic liturgy and for Lutheran churches. He produced two volumns of motets, a famous collection of court songs, and a volume of simpler hymn settings. He published both secular and religious music, managing to compose much for the Catholic church that was also usable in Lutheran settings. He was also a consultant to organ builders. In 1596 he, with 53 other organists, had the opportunity to examine a new instrument with 59 stops at the Schlosskirche, Groningen. He was recognized for his expertise in organ design and often was called on to examine new instruments. He entered the world of mechanical instrument construction, developing a clockwork organ that was later sold to Emperor Rudolf II. He died of tuberculosis in Frankfurt, Germany.
John Perry
Hans Leo Hassler
Johann Sebastian Bach
1685 - 1750 Person Name: J. S. Bach, 1685-1750 Harmonizer of "EIN FESTE BURG" in One in Faith 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 Sebastian Bach
Omer Westendorf
1916 - 1997 Author of "A Mighty Fortress Is Our God" in The Presbyterian Hymnal Omer Westendorf, one of the earliest lyricists for Roman Catholic liturgical music in English, died on October 22, 1997, at the age of eighty-one.
Born on February 24, 1916, Omer got his start in music publishing after World War II, when he brought home for his parish choir in Cincinnati some of the Mass settings he had discovered in Holland. Interest in the new music being published in Europe led to his creation of the World Library of Sacred Music, initially a music-importing firm that brought much of this new European repertoire to U.S. parishes. Operating out of a garage in those early years, Omer often joked about the surprised expressions of visitors who stopped by and found a wide range of sheet music in various states of “storage” (read disarray). Later, as World Library Publications, the company began publishing some of its own music, including new works with English texts by some of those same Dutch composers, for example, Jan Vermulst. In 1955 World Library published the first edition of The Peoples Hymnal, which would become the People's Mass Book in 1964, one of the first hymnals to reflect the liturgical reforms proposed by Vatican II. Omer also introduced the music of Lucien Deiss to Catholic parishes through the two volumes of Biblical Hymns and Psalms.
Using his own name and several pen names, Omer composed numerous compositions for liturgical use, though his best-known works may be the texts for the hymns “Where Charity and Love Prevail,” “Sent Forth by God’s Blessing,” and especially “Gift of Finest Wheat.” As he lay dying, his family and friends gathered around his bed to sing his text “Shepherd of Souls, in Love, Come, Feed Us.” NPM honored Omer as its Pastoral Musician of the Year in 1985.
--liturgicalleaders.blogspot.com/2008
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Pseudonyms:
Paul Francis
Mark Evans
J. Clifford Evers
--Letter from Tom Smith, Executive Director of The Hymn Society, to Leonard Ellinwood, 6 February 1980. DNAH Archives.
Omer Westendorf
