May God be gracious to us
It would God be gracious to us (Original There wolt us got his genedig , also it want us God genädig be ) is a hymn , the text of Martin Luther to Psalm 67 wrote. It was first printed in 1524 and is in Evangelical Hymn book No. 280.
history
After Martin Luther had translated the psalms into German in 1522 , he had the idea of reproducing the content in a singable form as a verse song. At the end of 1523 he expressed this idea in a letter to Georg Spalatin .
On Midsummer Day (June 24) in 1524 his song was It wolt Got us be genedig in Magdeburg from an old weaver as broadsheet distributed (leaflet) and sung together with Out of the depths I cry to you . The old man was then punished. In the same year the song appeared in Luther's Ein Weyse Christian Mass to hold and go to Gotti's table and in the Erfurt Enchiridion .
text
Lyrics (EG version) |
Psalm 67 (Luther 1984) |
God wants to be gracious to us |
God be gracious to us |
melody
The exact origin of the melody is unclear. A similar way was printed by Ludwig Senfl as 15th century music between 1522 and 1524. In 1524 it was used by Matthäus Greiter .
Heinrich Schütz , Johann Sebastian Bach , Gustav Mahler and numerous other composers created chorale arrangements for this song.
literature
- Martin Evang, Ilsabe Alpermann (Hrsg.): Liederkunde zum Evangelischen Gesangbuch . Issue 23, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2017. ISBN 978-3-525-50346-1 . Pp. 28-36 .