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Dearest Jesu, we are here, Thee to hear
Author: Tobias Clausnitzer Appears in 6 hymnals
Dearest Jesu, we are here, Thee to hear
LIEBSTER JESU
Meter: 7.8.7.8.8.8 Appears in 282 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Johann Rudolf Ahle, 1625-1673; Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750 Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 31253 12176 12321 Used With Text: Dearest Jesu, we are here
LIEBSTER JESU
Dearest Jesu, we are here
Hymnal: Psalmodia Germanica #72 (1732) Lyrics: I. Dearest Jesu, we are here,
To be in thy word instructed;
Guide our Hearts, O Thou, who'rt near;
Let our Minds hence be conducted
And from Earth be elevated;
Where we wish to be translated.
II. All our Knowledge, brings no Light
But is vain and dark by Nature,
Till thy holy Spirit bright
Forms within us the New Creature.
Pious Thoughts and true Devotion
Have their Source from thy blest Motion.
III. O Thou Glory all Divine,
Light of Light from God proceeding,
All our Hearts and Minds refine,
When thy Word our Souls is feeding.
Let our Pray'r, and Meditation,
Be a sweet and blest Oblation. Topics: Word of God Languages: English Tune Title: [Dearest Jesu, we are here]
Dearest Jesu, we are here
Dearest Jesus, we are here, To be in thy word instructed
Author: Tobias Clausnitzer Hymnal: Die Union Choral Harmonie #d27 (1839)
Dearest Jesus, we are here, To be in thy word instructed
Dearest Jesu, we are here
Author: Tobias Clausnitzer, 1619-1684; George Ratcliffe Woodward, 1848-1934 Hymnal: CPWI Hymnal #585 (2010) Meter: 7.8.7.8.8.8 Lyrics: 1 Dearest Jesu, we are here,
at thy call, thy presence owning;
pleading now in holy fear
that great sacrifice atoning:
Word incarnate, much in wonder
on this mystery deep we ponder.
2 Jesu, strong to save — the same
yesterday, today, for ever —
make us fear and love thy name,
serving thee with best endeavour:
in this life, O ne'er forsake us,
but to bliss hereafter take us. Topics: Sacraments and Other Occasions Holy Communion Scripture: Hebrews 13:8 Languages: English Tune Title: LIEBSTER JESU
Dearest Jesu, we are here
George Ratcliffe Woodward
1848 - 1934 Person Name: George Ratcliffe Woodward, 1848-1934 Translator of "Dearest Jesu, we are here" in CPWI Hymnal Educated at Caius College in Cambridge, England, George R. Woodward (b. Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, 1848; d. Highgate, London, England, 1934) was ordained in the Church of England in 1874. He served in six parishes in London, Norfolk, and Suffolk. He was a gifted linguist and translator of a large number of hymns from Greek, Latin, and German. But Woodward's theory of translation was a rigid one–he held that the translation ought to reproduce the meter and rhyme scheme of the original as well as its contents. This practice did not always produce singable hymns; his translations are therefore used more often today as valuable resources than as congregational hymns. With Charles Wood he published three series of The Cowley Carol Book (1901, 1902, 1919), two editions of Songs of Syon (1904, 1910), An Italian Carol Book (1920), and the Cambridge Carol Book
George Ratcliffe Woodward
Johann Sebastian Bach
1685 - 1750 Person Name: Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750 Harmonizer of "LIEBSTER JESU" in CPWI 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 Sebastian Bach
Johann Rudolf Ahle
1625 - 1673 Person Name: Johann Rudolf Ahle, 1625-1673 Composer of "LIEBSTER JESU" in CPWI Hymnal Johann Rudolph Ahle, b. Mühlhausen, 1625; Ahle studied theology at Erfurt University. Little is known about his musical education, but be became well known as an organist while he was in Erfurt. He returned to Mühlhausen and became an organist at St. Blasius Church, he composed organ music but is know for his sacred choral music. He was the father of Johann Georg, who was also a composer and succeeded his father as organist at St. Blasius Church. Johann Rudolf became mayor of Mühlhausen late in his life and died there in 1673.
Dianne Shapiro (from Bach Cantatas Website www.bach-cantatas.com/Lib/Ahle-Johann-Rudolf.htm)
Johann Rudolf Ahle
