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"Warum sollt ich mich denn grämen" (Why should I then grieve) is a Lutheran
hymn A hymn is a type of song, and partially synonymous with devotional song, specifically written for the purpose of adoration or prayer, and typically addressed to a deity or deities, or to a prominent figure or personification. The word ''hy ...
with a text by
Paul Gerhardt Paul Gerhardt (12 March 1607 – 27 May 1676) was a German theologian, Lutheran minister and hymnodist. Biography Gerhardt was born into a middle-class family at Gräfenhainichen, a small town between Halle and Wittenberg. His father died in ...
written in 1653. It was first published that same year in the fifth edition of
Johann Crüger Johann Crüger (9 April 1598 – 23 February 1662) was a German composer of well-known hymns. He was also the editor of the most widely used Lutheran hymnal of the 17th century, '' Praxis pietatis melica''. Early life and education Crüger was b ...
's hymnal ''
Praxis Pietatis Melica ''Praxis pietatis melica'' (''Practice of Piety in Song'') is a Protestant hymnal first published in the 17th century by Johann Crüger. The hymnal, which appeared under this title from 1647 to 1737 in 45 editions, has been described as "the most ...
'', set to a melody composed by Crüger. In the 1993 Protestant hymnal, '' Evangelisches Gesangbuch'', it appears as number 370 with a melody composed by Johann Georg Ebeling, which was published with the divergent title "Warum sollt ich mich doch grämen" in ''Pauli Gerhardi Geistliche Andachten'' in 1666.


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Paul Gerhardt Paul Gerhardt (12 March 1607 – 27 May 1676) was a German theologian, Lutheran minister and hymnodist. Biography Gerhardt was born into a middle-class family at Gräfenhainichen, a small town between Halle and Wittenberg. His father died in ...
's hymn "Warum sollt ich mich denn grämen" was first published in 1653, in the fifth edition of
Johann Crüger Johann Crüger (9 April 1598 – 23 February 1662) was a German composer of well-known hymns. He was also the editor of the most widely used Lutheran hymnal of the 17th century, '' Praxis pietatis melica''. Early life and education Crüger was b ...
's hymnal ''
Praxis Pietatis Melica ''Praxis pietatis melica'' (''Practice of Piety in Song'') is a Protestant hymnal first published in the 17th century by Johann Crüger. The hymnal, which appeared under this title from 1647 to 1737 in 45 editions, has been described as "the most ...
''.
Johann Crüger Johann Crüger (9 April 1598 – 23 February 1662) was a German composer of well-known hymns. He was also the editor of the most widely used Lutheran hymnal of the 17th century, '' Praxis pietatis melica''. Early life and education Crüger was b ...
, '' Praxis Pietatis Melica. Das ist: Übung der Gottseligkeit in Christlichen und trostreichen Gesängen'', Berlin, Editio V. , 1653, pp.&nbs
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at the
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). Below is the text of the first stanza, in the original German:


Musical settings

Johann Crüger's hymn tune for "Warum sollt ich mich denn grämen", published in the 1653 fifth edition of his ''Praxis Pietatis Melica'', has 6455a as
Zahn number A Lutheran chorale is a musical setting of a Lutheran hymn, intended to be sung by a congregation in a German Protestant Church service. The typical four-part setting of a chorale, in which the sopranos (and the congregation) sing the melody al ...
. Several variants of Crüger's melody for the hymn were published in the 18th and 19th centuries. In 1666 Johann Georg Ebeling published the hymn with a new melody, Zahn 6456a, under the variant title "Warum sollt ich mich doch grämen", in ''Pauli Gerhardi Geistliche Andachten''. Also this hymn tune was published in several variants in the 18th and 19th centuries. Other tunes for the hymn, sometimes partly based on Ebeling's setting, were published from the 17th to the 19th century (Zahn 6457–6462). Zahn 6462 is the variant
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 in
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of his ''
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'', with the 15th stanza of Gerhardt's hymn " Fröhlich soll mein Herze springen" ("Ich will dich mit Fleiß bewahren") as text. This version of the melody, a simplification of the Zahn 6461 melody, was first published in 1769 as No. 143 in the second volume of Bach's four-part chorales published by Birnstiel, and is thus attributed to Bach. "Warum sollt ich mich denn grämen", BWV 422, is another four-part chorale harmonisation by Bach of the same tune. Max Reger composed a
chorale prelude In music, a chorale prelude or chorale setting is a short liturgical composition for organ using a chorale tune as its basis. It was a predominant style of the German Baroque era and reached its culmination in the works of J.S. Bach, who wrote 46 ...
as No. 43 of his 52 Chorale Preludes, Op. 67 in 1902.


References


Sources

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Further reading

* Möller, Christian (ed.), ''Ich singe dir mit Herz und Mund. Liedauslegungen – Liedmeditationen – Liedpredigten. Ein Arbeitsbuch zum Evangelischen Gesangbuch'', Stuttgart 1997, * Thost, Karl Christian, ''Bibliographie über die Lieder des Evangelischen Gesangbuchs'', Göttingen 2006, * Johann Friedrich Bachmann: ''Paulus Gerhardts geistliche Lieder: historisch-kritische Ausgabe''. Oehmigke, Berlin 1866, pp. 109–111 ().


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