Suggested tune: WIE SCHÖN LEUCHTET
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Hallelujah! Lob, Preis und Ehr. [Trinity Sunday.] The earliest text known is in a broadsheet entitled Gaudium Aeternum, &c. [Ducal Library, Gotha], printed at Dresden, 1655, in memory of a Dresden lawyer called Johann Scheffer. The dedication is "at Dresden, M.Martinus von Döring," but no clear indication is given as to the authorship of the hymn. It is founded on Rev. xxi., xxii., and is in 31 stanzas of 8 lines. A full notice of this broadsheet is given in the Blätter fur Hymnologie, 1884, pp. 77-79. The form now in use is given at p. 482 in the Geistreiches Gesang-Buch, Darmstadt, 1698, in 4 stanza, entitled " The Marriage Hymn," and is based on stanza i., xv., xxvi., xxxi., of the longer form. It passed through Freylinghausen's Gesang-Buch, 1704, into many later collections (Berlin Geistliche Lieder edition 1863, No. 1000), and has been a special favourite in Germany as a "Swansong" for the dying. It is sometimes erroneously ascribed to B. Crasselius.
The translations are, (1) "Hallelujah, Love, Thanks and Praise," in the Supplement to German Psalter, edition 1765, p. 70, and Select Hymns from German Psalter, Tranquebar, 1754, p. 98. (2) “Hallelujah, Might, Honour, Praise," as No. 674 in pt. i. of the Moravian Hymn Book, 1754. (3) "Sing Hallelujah, honour, praise," as No. 336 in the Moravian Hymn Book , 1789 (1886, No. 424). [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
Crasselius, Bartholomäus, son of Johannes Crasselt, sheepmaster at Wemsdorf near Glauchau, Saxony; was born at Wernsdorf, Feb. 21, 1667. After studying at Halle, under A. H. Francke, he became, in 1701, pastor at Nidda, in Wetteravia, Hesse. In 1708 he was appointed Lutheran pastor at Düsseldorf, where he died Nov. 30, 1724, after a somewhat troubled pastorate, during which he felt called upon to testify strongly and somewhat bitterly against the shortcomings of the place and of the times (Koch, iv. 418-421; Allg. Deutsche Biographie, iv. 566-67; Bode, p. 55; manuscript from Pastor Baltzer, Wernsdorf; the second dating his call to Dusseldorf 1706). Of the 9 hymns by him which Freylinghausen included in his Geistreiches Gesang-Buch, 1704,… Go to person page >
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