Oh stay with your grace

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Oh, stay with your grace in Stegmann's Ernewerte Hertzens-Seufftzer (Lüneburg 1633)

Oh, stay with your grace is a spiritual song with a text by Josua Stegmann , a Lutheran theologian at Rinteln University , from 1627. The melody ? / i was taken over from Melchior Vulpius' song "Christ, who is my life" (1609; EG 516; GL 507) , which developed into a "main melody of the Protestant church chant". The song Now write in the book of life (EG 207) is sung to the same melody . Catholic worshipers are also familiar with the melody from the song Beim Lastmahle (GL 282) (text by Christoph von Schmid 1807). In the Evangelical Hymn book it can be found under number 347, in the Catholic Praise of God (without Stegmann's stanza 5) under number 436 and in the Mennonite hymnbook under number 149. It belongs to the ecumenical hymns. Audio file / audio sample

Emergence

Josua Stegmann was appointed professor at the newly founded university in Rinteln in 1621, during the Thirty Years' War . In spring 1623 the city was attacked, plundered and occupied for half a year by the troops of Duke Christian von Braunschweig-Lüneburg . In addition to the chaos of war, the plague had ruled Rinteln since the mid-1620s .

The song Oh stay with your grace was published in 1627 in the second edition of Stegmann's Christian Prayer Booklet , which, according to its detailed title, was supposed to offer spiritual support for the times of need. A first edition of the book, probably from 1626, has been lost.

content

The text that occurs in every stanza ("Oh, stay ... with us") is - as with many songs on the ancient church verse Mane Nobiscum Domine (Lord, stay with us) - a quote from the Emmaust theme : Stay with us, because evening will come ... ( Lk 24,29  LUT ).

The six pleading stanzas follow a recurring structure. The teacher Otto Pröschold thinks he can derive a biblical background of the sequence grace - word - shine - blessing - protection - loyalty from 1 Cor 1: 4–9  LUT .

reception

Heinrich Schütz wrote a choir for the song ( SWV 445 ). Further musical arrangements are by Wilhelm Rudnick (op. 70,1) and Sigfrid Karg-Elert (symphonic chorale Oh stay with your grace ; op. 87,1).

For the hymn book commission of the Evangelical Church in the Royal Prussian Lands , Gottfried August Ludwig Hanstein prepared a new version of the text in 1819, which followed the theology of Friedrich Schleiermacher and was far removed from the original text. This version was printed in several hymn books in the 19th century, but could not establish itself in the long term.

The jazz musicians Till Brönner (flugelhorn) and Dieter Ilg (double bass) recorded the song in their 2018 album Nightfall .

translation

Catherine Winkworth translated the song into English in 1863 under the title Abide among us with Thy grace .

literature

  • Albert Fischer , Wilhelm Tümpel: The German Protestant hymn of the seventeenth century. Second volume, Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1905, p. 486.
  • Beate and Winrich Scheffbuch : Sing the grief from the heart. This is how famous songs came about. Volume 1, Hänssler-Verlag, Holzgerlingen 1997, ISBN 978-3-7751-2797-4 , pp. 279-280 ( PDF )
  • Hans Zappe: Everyone is singing his song. Impressions from the life and work of Josua Stegmann. Evangelische Verlags-Anstalt, Berlin 1962.

Web links

Wikisource: Oh stay with your grace  - sources and full texts
Commons : Oh, abide by your grace  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Fischer: 516 - Christ, he is my life . In: Gerhard Hahn , Jürgen Henkys (Hrsg.): Liederkunde zum Evangelisches Gesangbuch . No. 9 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-525-50332-6 , pp. 57–62 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. ↑ Michael Fischer: Christ, that is my life (2007). In: Popular and Traditional Songs. Historical-critical song lexicon of the German Folk Song Archive .
  3. ↑ Josua Stegmann: Christian prayer booklet addressed to the forthcoming afflicted, Krigs, Theurung and dying times, besides morning and evening blessings every day of the week, so also confession, communion and other prayers should be accommodated for all kinds of needs of Christianity. Lucius, Rinteln 1627
  4. ^ Wilhelm Kühlmann : War and Peace in the Literature of the 17th Century . In: Klaus Bußmann (Ed.): 1648: War and Peace in Europe . tape 2 . Westphalian State Museum for Art and Cultural History, Münster 1998, ISBN 3-88789-127-9 , p. 329-337 (on- line ).
  5. ↑ Corresponding settings as evening song : Johann Sebastian Bach - Stay with us, because evening will come (BWV 6) ; Josef Rheinberger - Evening Song (op. 69, No. 3); Albert Thate - Lord, stay with us (Canon); Gene Rosso - Resta con noi ; Jacques Berthier - abide by your grace
  6. ↑ Otto Pröschold: The biblical basis of the song “Oh stay with your grace” in: Monthly sheets for Protestant religious instruction , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1925, online
  7. ^ Bernhard Schmidt: Lied - Kirchenmusik - Sermon in the festive worship service of Friedrich Schleiermacher , de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2002, ISBN 3-11-017063-9 , p. 185.
  8. ↑ Till Brönner & Dieter Ilg: Video “Oh, stay with your grace” , sonymusicmasterworks.com, accessed on January 27, 2018
  9. ↑ Till Brönner / Dieter Ilg - Oh, stay with your grace , hitparade.ch, accessed on January 27, 2018
  10. ^ Abide among us with Thy grace . Hymnary.org. Retrieved July 1, 2016.