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Johannes Hermann, also Johann Herrmann, (1515 – 22 April 1593 in
Freiberg Freiberg is a university and former mining town in Saxony, Germany. It is a so-called ''Große Kreisstadt'' (large county town) and the administrative centre of Mittelsachsen district. Its historic town centre has been placed under heritage c ...
) was a German church musician, hymn writer and jurist. He held the position of in
Leipzig Leipzig ( , ; Upper Saxon: ) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. Leipzig's population of 605,407 inhabitants (1.1 million in the larger urban zone) as of 2021 places the city as Germany's eighth most populous, as ...
from 1531 to 1536. He became the first Protestant Kantor of Freiberg, and a jurist in 1540.


Hymns

Johann Sebastian Bach Johann Sebastian Bach (28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period. He is known for his orchestral music such as the '' Brandenburg Concertos''; instrumental compositions such as the Cello Suites; keyboard wo ...
used his hymn "Jesu, nun sei gepreiset", in three stanzas of 14 lines each, for
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, in three
cantatas A cantata (; ; literally "sung", past participle feminine singular of the Italian verb ''cantare'', "to sing") is a vocal composition with an instrumental accompaniment, typically in several movements, often involving a choir. The meaning of th ...
composed in Leipzig for the occasion, first ''Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied'', BWV 190 (1724), a year later the
chorale cantata A chorale cantata is a church cantata based on a chorale—in this context a Lutheran chorale. It is principally from the German Baroque era. The organizing principle is the words and music of a Lutheran hymn. Usually a chorale cantata includes mult ...
''Jesu, nun sei gepreiset'', BWV 41 (1725), and ''Gott, wie dein Name, so ist auch dein Ruhm'', BWV 171 (1729).


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German music educators Jurists from Saxony German Protestant hymnwriters 1515 births 1593 deaths Musicians from Freiberg 16th-century hymnwriters {{Germany-writer-stub