Johann Anastasius Freylinghausen, 1670-1739

Freylinghausen

Common Service Book (1917 – ULCA) - 10

7 – Lift Up Your Heads, Ye Mighty Gates! – Georg Weissel, d. 1635
Macht Hoch die Thur – J. A. Freylinghausen’s Gesangbuch, Halle, 1704

32 – Let the Earth Now Praise the Lord – Heinrich Held, 1658
Gott Sei Dank Durch Alle Welt – J. A. Freylinghausen’s Gesangbuch, Halle, 1704

82 – Savior, When in Dust to Thee – Robert Grand, 1815
Christe, Wahres Seelenlicht – J. A. Freylinghausen’s Gesangbuch, Halle, 1704

95 – Lord, Thy Death and Passion Give – Johann Heermann, 1644 – based on
A Latin Hymn of Bernard of Clairvaux, d1153
Christe, Wahres Seelenlicht – J. A. Freylinghausen’s Gesangbuch, Halle, 1704

149 – Come, O Come, Thou Quickening Spirit – Heinrich Held, 1658
Komm, O Komm, Du Geist des Lebens – J. A. Freylinghausen’s Gesangbuch, Halle, 1704

166 – Spread, O Spread, Thou Mighty Word – Jonathan Friederich Bahnmaier, 1827
Gott Sei Dank Durch Alle Welt – J. A. Freylinghausen’s Gesangbuch, Halle, 1704

290 – Heaven and Earth, and Sea and Air – Joachim Neader, 1680
Gott Sei Dank Durch Alle Welt – J. A. Freylinghausen’s Gesangbuch, Halle, 1704

454 – Dayspring of Eternity – Christian Knorr von Rosenroth, 1684
Morgenglanz der Ewigkeit – J. A. Freylinghausen’s Gesangbuch, Halle, 1704

485 – Praise to God, Immortal Praise – Anna Laetitia Barbauld, 1772
Gott Sei Dank Durch Alle Welt – J. A. Freylinghausen’s Gesangbuch, Halle, 1704

323 – Spread, O Spread, Thou Mighty Word – Jonathan Friederich Bahnmaier, 1827
Gott Sei Dank Durch Alle Welt – J. A. Freylinghausen’s Gesangbuch, Halle, 1704


Service Book and Hymnal (1958 – LCA/TALC) - 5

8 – Lift Up Your Heads, Ye Mighty Gates! – Georg Weissel, 1590-1635
Macht Hoch die Tur – J. A. Freylinghausen’s Gesangbuch, Halle, 1704

212 – Come, Thou Bright and Morning Star – Christian Knorr von Rosenroth, 1636-16891
Morgenglanz der Ewigkeit – J. A. Freylinghausen’s Gesangbuch, Halle, 1704
Appears to be an alternate translation of CSB #454

255 – Awake, Thou Spirit of the Watchmen – Karl Heinrich von Bogatzky, 1690-1774
Crasselius (Dir, Dir, Jehovah) – J. A. Freylinghausen’s Gesangbuch, Halle, 1704

323 – Spread, O Spread, Thou Mighty Word – Jonathan Friederich Bahnmaier, 1827 *1
Gott Sei Dank Durch Alle Welt – J. A. Freylinghausen’s Gesangbuch, Halle, 1704

435 – Hail, Thou Once Despised Jesus! – John Bakewell, 1721-18191
Conqueror (O Durchbrecher) – J. A. Freylinghausen’s Gesangbuch, Halle, 1704



Lutheran Book of Worship (1978 – ELCA) - 3

32 – Fling Wide the Door, Unbar the Gate (Lift Up Your Heads) – Gracia Grindal, b. 1943 (Weissel, 1685)
Macht Hoch die Tur – J. A. Freylinghausen’s Gesangbuch, Halle, 1704

379 – Spread, O Spread, Thou Mighty Word – Jonathan Friederich Bahnmaier, 1827, hymnal version 1978
Gott Sei Dank Durch Alle Welt – J. A. Freylinghausen’s Gesangbuch, Halle, 1704

382 – Awake, Thou Spirit of the Watchmen – Karl Heinrich von Bogatzky, 1690-1774, composite alt.
(Crasselius) Dir, Dir, Jehovah – J. A. Freylinghausen’s Gesangbuch, Halle, 1704


(Evangelical Lutheran) Worship (2006 – ELCA) - 2

259 – Fling Wide the Door, Unbar the Gate (Lift Up Your Heads) – Gr. Grindal, b. 1943 (Weissel, 1685)
Macht Hoch die Tur – J. A. Freylinghausen’s Geistreiches Gesangbuch, Halle, 1704

663 – Spread, O Spread, Thou Mighty Word – Jonathan Friederich Bahnmaier, 1774-1841
Gott Sei Dank Durch Alle Welt – J. A. Freylinghausen’s Geistreiches Gesangbuch, Halle, 1704

188 – Create in Me a Clean Heart – no author attributed1
“Music by: J. A. Freylinghausen, 1670-1739” – no tune name given*

*Of the four tunes in this hymnal for The Offertory, this is the one most popularly used when it appeared in previous Lutheran Services, including the Holy Communion service in The Lutheran Hymnal, which has no other Freylinghausen music, so indicated.

*1 These hymns from the Freylinghausen Geistreiches Gesangbuch, Halle, 1704, also appear in the Ambassador Hymnal , 1994, The Association of Free Lutheran Congregations (AFLC), which strays quite a distance to the left from even the Lutheran Book of Worship.


Notes:

1. Post-1941 Hymnals of the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod, Lutheran Worship and Lutheran Service Book, were not surveyed.
2. The Umlauted-U that should appear in Thur and Tur is omitted.
3. Geistreiches is an interesting adjective for Gesangbuch in a hymnal from Halle University, home of Pietism.


Compiled by Raymond A. Klatt, Jr., the sixth Sunday of Trinity, 2009

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Born: De­cem­ber 2, 1670, Gan­ders­heim, Harz Mount­ains, Ger­ma­ny.

Died: Feb­ru­a­ry 12, 1739, Halle, Ger­ma­ny.


Johann A. Freylinghausen (1670-1739)

Freylinghausen stu­died the­ol­o­gy at the Uni­ver­si­ties of Jena (1689), and Halle (1692). In 1695 he start­ed work at the or­phan­age and Pä­da­go­gi­um (edu­ca­tion­al in­sti­tute) of Halle an der Saale. He mar­ried the di­rect­or’s daugh­ter and him­self be­came di­rect­or in 1727. He was al­so pas­tor at St. Ul­rich Church in Halle.

Freyling­hausen wrote and com­posed 44 hymns. In 1697, he pub­lished the first edi­tion of his Geist­reiches Ge­sang­buch (Spirit­ual Hymn­al). The 1704 edi­tion in­clud­ed 683 hymns (83 of them by Paul Gerhardt) with 174 hymn tunes. This was the most im­port­ant hymn col­lect­ion of the Pi­e­tis­tic per­i­od of Lu­ther­an hym­no­dy. In the fol­low­ing de­cades, more hymns were add­ed, and by 1741 it had 1,581 hymns with 597 tunes.


Melodies by Freylinghausen

1. Das Ist Meine Freude
2. Dir, Dir, Jehovah
3. Gott Sei Dank durch Alle Welt
4. Irene
5. Jesus Ist das Schönste Licht
6. Lobe Den Herren, O Meine Seele
7. Macht Hoch die Tür
8. Sebastian