"Wo ein Mensch Vertrauen gibt" (Where a person gives trust) is a Christian hymn with text by , written in 1974, with a melody by

Winfried Heurich Winfried Heurich (born 13 February 1940) is a German organist and composer. Life Born in Neuhof, Hesse, Heurich was from 1962 to 2000 the church musician of Liebfrauen in Frankfurt am Main. In 1973 he composed songs titled ''Ganz nah ist dei ...

and Fritz Baltruweit. The song of the genre

Neues Geistliches Lied ''Neues Geistliches Lied'' (, ''new spiritual song''), abbreviated NGL, is a music genre of songs in German intended for church usage, and based on contemporary lyrics and with music by contemporary composers. History The idea to reach youn ...

was included in hymnals and songbooks.

History

The text was written by in 1974. The text has been set to music by

and in 1974. The song has short

stanza In poetry, a stanza (; from Italian language, Italian ''stanza'' , "room") is a group of lines within a poem, usually set off from others by a blank line or Indentation (typesetting), indentation. Stanzas can have regular rhyme scheme, rhyme and ...

s of four lines each, all giving a condition, ending in the same two lines "fällt ein Tropfen von dem Regen / der aus Wüsten Gärten macht" (then a drop falls of the rain that turns deserts to gardens). The song of the genre

was included in the German Catholic hymnal ''

Gotteslob ''Gotteslob'' ("Praise of God") is the title of the hymnbook authorized by the Catholic dioceses in Germany, Austria, South Tyrol, Luxembourg and Liège, Belgium. First published in Advent 2013, it is the current official hymnal for German-speaki ...

'' in 2013, in the

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as GL 839. It became EG 638 in the Protestant hymnal '' Evangelisches Gesangbuch''. It was also added to other songbooks including ''Junges Gotteslob'', the hymnal for young people, and other collections for young people.

References

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