Rise, yes you will rise
Resurrection, yes you will resurrect , original title Die Auferstehung , is a poem by Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock , which addresses the Christian hope of resurrection . It was included as a hymn in most Protestant hymn books until the first third of the 20th century .
Emergence
Klopstock published the text for the first time in the first part of his Spiritual Songs (Copenhagen and Leipzig 1758). These songs were expressly intended for worship . Correspondingly, under the heading of The Resurrection , there is the melody indication “ Jesus Christ our Savior who overcomes death. “, One of the main Lutheran songs for Easter . Klopstock adapted his text exactly to the version of this melody that was in use at the time, so that a very irregular trochaic - iambic stanza form was created.
content
In his poem, Klopstock lets the lyrical I speak to itself the hope of resurrection. Despite all the modernity of the language, biblical images - especially from Psalm 126.1–6 LUT - and the traditional sequence of eschatology - but without the judgment - are reproduced in simple directness.
reception
The text with the baroque Luther melody could not establish itself as a parish song, but was used as a choral song in the setting by Carl Heinrich Graun , especially at funerals. It was also heard at Klopstock's own funeral service on March 22, 1803 in the Christian church in Ottensen .
From the beginning of the 19th century, various new melodies were created for Klopstock's poem, and the song was hardly missing in any Protestant hymnbook, including the German Evangelical Hymnbook from 1915 with its regional editions up to the 1930s.
It was then no longer included in the main part of the Evangelical Church Hymn book (1950), and the Evangelical Hymnal from 1993 only contains it in the regional editions of Baden , Württemberg and Palatinate .
Klopstock's resurrection poem became world-famous through Gustav Mahler , who set the first two stanzas to music with his own additions in his 2nd symphony .
literature
- Hermann Kurzke : Resurrect, yes, you will resurrect in: Hansjakob Becker et al .: Geistliches Wunderhorn. Great German hymns . 2nd Edition. Beck, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-406-48094-2 , pp. 366-371
- Laura Bolognesi (ed.): Hamburger Klopstock edition Volume III / 2, Apparat zu Geistliche Lieder , Hamburg 2013, pp. 240–251 ( books.google )
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Klopstock's text with the melody version by JS Bach
- ↑ Graun's setting, 1758
- ↑ cf. hymnary.org for the German-language Protestant hymn books in the USA