Our father in the Heaven

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Our father, autograph of the lyrics with the only musical notation from Luther's hand Our father, autograph of the lyrics with the only musical notation from Luther's hand
Our father, autograph of the lyrics with the only musical notation from Luther's hand

Our Father in the Kingdom of Heaven is a hymn by Martin Luther . It was written in 1538 or 1539. An autograph contains the reformer's only surviving musical notation. In the Evangelical Hymn book it is song 344, in the Mennonite hymn book song 95.

Emergence

Luther wrote the song in 1538 or 1539 as a rewrite of his declarations on the Our Father in the Small Catechism , in order to bring the Lord's prayer closer to evangelical Christians in a form that can be kept and singed.

In 1539 the first printed version appeared as a single-sheet print. In the same year the song was printed in Valentin Schumann senior's hymnbook .

Text version of the Protestant hymn book

Luther's text based on the Weimar edition
First lines of the song in Arabic script in an Ottoman song collection, late 16th century.

The text was corrected and reworked several times by Martin Luther, as the autograph shows. The song consists of nine stanzas in which the salutation, the seven petitions and the amen are paraphrased and explained. Doxology is not taken into account .

1
Our father in the Heaven,
you are the same name for all of us
Be brothers and call you
and want us to pray:
let your mouth not pray
help that it go from the bottom of the heart.
2
Hallowed be your name,
your word with us help keep it pure,
that we also live holy,
worthy of your name.
Guard us, Lord, from false teaching
the poor seduce people to convert.
3
Your kingdom will come at this time
and there afterwards for eternity.
May the Holy Spirit be with us
various things with his gifts;
Satan's wrath and great violence
break, keep your church before him.
4th
Your will be done, Lord God, at the same time
on earth as in heaven.
Give us patience in times of suffering
to be obedient in love and sorrow;
fight back and control all flesh and blood,
that does against your will.
5
Give us our daily bread today
and what is needed for physical distress;
protect us, sir, from strife, strife,
from epidemics and from dear times,
that we are in good peace
the care and stinginess go idle.
6th
Forgive us all our debts, Lord,
that it no longer troubles us,
as we do to our debtors
Like to forgive their guilt and mistakes.
Prepare us all to serve
in true love and unity.
7th
Lead us, lord, do not be tempted,
when the evil spirit challenges us;
to the left and right hand
help us do strong resistance
firm and well-structured in faith
and through the consolation of the Holy Spirit.
8th
Deliver us from all evil;
the time and days are bad.
Deliver us from eternal death
and comforts us in our last need.
Give us a happy end too,
take our souls in your hands.
9
Amen, that is: it will come true.
Strengthen our faith forever
so that we don't doubt it,
what we hereby asked
on your word in the name of yours.
So we pronounce the amen finely.

Choral melody from Valentin Schumann's hymn book from 1539:

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music

Our Father in the Kingdom of Heaven by J. Pachelbel
Setting by D. Buxtehude, BuxWV 219

The melody was created by Luther after the table blessing of the monk of Salzburg and a tune from the hymn book of the Bohemian Brothers from 1531.

Various composers created chorale arrangements. Michael Praetorius , Jacob Praetorius the Younger , Samuel Scheidt , Heinrich Scheidemann and Johann Pachelbel set the song to music in choral preludes . Jacob van Eyck begins his collection for recorder Der Fluyten Lusthof with variations on Onse Vader in Hemelryck . There are two chorale preludes by Dieterich Buxtehude , also by Georg Böhm , which were wrongly ascribed to Bach as BWV 760 and 761. Johann Sebastian Bach set the hymn in the Orgelbüchlein (BWV 636) to music and composed two versions in Part III of his keyboard exercise . The melody also appears in his cantatas. A terrible end will come for you , take away from us, Lord, you faithful God , Lord, your eyes look to faith , and the stanza Thy Will be done sounds in the St. John Passion . Finally there are arrangements by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy ( 6th organ sonata ) and Max Reger (52 chorale preludes for organ, Op. 67).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Fluyten Lusthof