"" (Do not punish me in your anger) is a

Lutheran hymn Martin Luther was a great enthusiast for music, and this is why it forms a large part of Lutheran services; in particular, Luther admired the composers Josquin des Prez and Ludwig Senfl and wanted singing in the church to move away from the '' ...

with a text written by

Johann Georg Albinus Johann Georg Albinus (6 March 1624 – 25 May 1679) was a German Protestant pastor and hymnwriter. He studied at the University of Leipzig and served as a rector at the Naumburg Cathedral School and the pastor of St. Othmar's Church, both in Na ...

as a paraphrase of

Psalm 6 Psalm 6 is the sixth psalm of the Book of Psalms, beginning in English in the King James Version: "O LORD, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure". In Latin, it is known as "Domine ne in furore tuo arguas me". Th ...

. It was first printed with a formerly secular melody in Dresden in 1694. The song was included in 31 hymnals. The melody inspired musical settings both for organ and vocal works. The hymn was translated by

Catherine Winkworth Catherine Winkworth (13 September 1827 – 1 July 1878) was an English hymnwriter and educator. She translated the German chorale tradition of church hymns for English speakers, for which she is recognized in the calendar of the Evangelical Lut ...

as "Not in anger, Mighty God", which appeared in 13 hymnals.

History and lyrics

, a

Lutheran Lutheranism is one of the largest branches of Protestantism, identifying primarily with the theology of Martin Luther, the 16th-century German monk and reformer whose efforts to reform the theology and practice of the Catholic Church launched th ...

minister in

Naumburg Naumburg () is a town in (and the administrative capital of) the district Burgenlandkreis, in the state of Saxony-Anhalt, Central Germany (cultural area), Central Germany. It has a population of around 33,000. The Naumburg Cathedral became a UNES ...

, wrote the lyrics in seven stanzas. He paraphrased

, which begins in the

King James Version The King James Version (KJV), also the King James Bible (KJB) and the Authorized Version, is an Bible translations into English, English translation of the Christian Bible for the Church of England, which was commissioned in 1604 and publis ...

"O Lord, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure." (). The song was included in 31 hymnals. It was translated several times, including

's "Not in anger, Mighty God", which appeared in 13 hymnals.

Melody and settings

The melody was a dance tune in a manuscript dating from 1681 at the latest; it was printed with the sacred text in the collection ''Hundert ahnmutig- und sonderbar geistlicher Arien'' ("One hundred charming and remarkably spiritual Airs"), printed in

Dresden Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label=Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth larg ...

in 1694. The melody, known by the name "Wurttemburg", is sung in Anglican churches to the words

Christ the Lord Is Risen Again! "Christ the Lord Is Risen Again!" (German: "''Christus ist erstanden Von der Marter alle''") is a German Christian hymn published by Michael Weiße in 1531 based on an earlier German hymn of a very similar name. It was translated into English in ...

Organ

Chorale preludes In music, a chorale prelude or chorale setting is a short liturgical composition for pipe organ, organ using a chorale tune as its basis. It was a predominant style of the German Baroque music, Baroque era and reached its culmination in the works o ...

on the melody were composed by

Georg Philipp Telemann Georg Philipp Telemann (; – 25 June 1767) was a German Baroque composer and multi-instrumentalist. Almost completely self-taught in music, he became a composer against his family's wishes. After studying in Magdeburg, Zellerfeld, and Hildesh ...

Johann Gottfried Walther Johann Gottfried Walther (18 September 1684 – 23 March 1748) was a German music theorist, organist, composer, and lexicographer of the Baroque era. Walther was born at Erfurt. Not only was his life almost exactly contemporaneous to that ...

Gottfried August Homilius Gottfried August Homilius (2 February 1714 – 2 June 1785) was a German composer, cantor and organist.Dennis Shrock ''Choral Repertoire'' 2009 -- Page 303 "1714–1785 Homilius was born near Dresden, where he was educated and where he served ...

and

Johann Ernst Bach Johann, typically a male given name, is the German form of ''Iohannes'', which is the Latin form of the Greek name ''Iōánnēs'' (), itself derived from Hebrew name ''Yochanan'' () in turn from its extended form (), meaning "Yahweh is Gracious" ...

, among others. Johann Georg Herzog, Johann Georg) wrote a prelude in 1876.

Max Reger Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger (19 March 187311 May 1916) was a German composer, pianist, organist, conductor, and academic teacher. He worked as a concert pianist, as a musical director at the Paulinerkirche, Leipzig, Leipzig University ...

used the hymn in 1899 as the base of the second of two

chorale fantasia Chorale fantasia is a type of large composition based on a chorale melody, both works for organ, and vocal settings, for example the opening movements of Bach's chorale cantatas, with the chorale melody as a cantus firmus. History Chorale fantas ...

s, ''Zwei Choralphantasien'', Op. 40, the first being based on " Wie schön leucht't der Morgenstern". He composed a chorale prelude as No. 37 of his 52 Chorale Preludes, Op. 67 in 1902.

Vocal

Johann Sebastian Bach used the melody with the different hymn text "Mache dich, mein Geist, bereit" by Johann Burchard Freystein in his

chorale cantata A chorale cantata is a church cantata based on a chorale—in this context a Lutheran chorale. It is principally from the Germany, German Baroque music, Baroque era. The organizing principle is the words and music of a Lutheran hymn. Usually a chora ...

''Mache dich, mein Geist, bereit'' BWV 115, changing the meter from

common time The time signature (also known as meter signature, metre signature, or measure signature) is a notational convention used in Western musical notation to specify how many beats (pulses) are contained in each measure (bar), and which note value ...

to 6/8 in the opening

References

External links

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Max Reger: Phantasie on the Chorale "Straf' mich nicht in deinem Zorn"

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* Rudolf Stier
''Die Gesangbuchsnoth''
1938, p. 103 {{Authority control 17th-century hymns in German Lutheran hymns based on Psalms Hymn tunes