Alberus, Erasmus - Ein Engel Schön aus Gottes Thron
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Composer:
Erasmus Alberus (c1500-1553)
aliases, aka: né Alber Country of origin / activity: Germany |
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Score: Strassburg Gesangbuch (1697) http://www.lutheranlegacy.org/viewbook.asp?BookID=12 mensural notation
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Lyrics: (source: http://www.hymnary.org/text/ein_engel_schon_aus_gottes_thron)
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1 Ein Engel schön aus Gottes Thron Zu einer Jungfrau reine Maria zart gesendet ward Zu ihr kam er alleine Derselb Engel Heißt Gabriel Das ist verdollmetscht Gott's Kraft Er bracht ein fröhlich Botschaft Wie Gott gedacht Menschlich Geschlecht Aus aller Noth Und ew'gen Tod Durch seinen Sohn zu rlösen Sonst blieb im Zorn Die Welt verlorn Bei Satana dem Bösen |
2 Der Engel fein trat zu ihr h'nein; Und red t aus Gottes Munde Gott grüß dich zart holdselger Art Mit dir ist Gott der Herre Gott hat dich weit Gebenedeit Üb'r all Weiber auf Erden Sie dacht was will draus werden Die Jungfrau zart Betrübet ward Der Engel spricht Du sollst dich nicht Vor meiner Red entsetzen Ich komm von Gott Ein frommer Bot Laß dich mein Wort ergötzen |
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3 So hör von mir was ich Von Gotteswegen sagen soll dir In deinem Leib o reines Weib Ein Kindlein wirst du tragen Derselb dein Sohn Jungfräulein schön Jesus genannt soll werden Er wird groß seyn auf Erden Ja Gottes Sohn Im höchsten Thron Genannt wird seyn Und haben inn Seins Vaters Davids Stuhle Demselben Reich War nie keins gleich Er wird regiern ohn Ende |
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4 Die reine Magd zum Engel sagt Wer hat solchs je gesehen So ich kein n Mann erkennet hem Wie kann denn dies geschehen Er sprach Hör mich Daß über dich Der heilig Keist wird kommen Von Gott Hab ichs vernommen Durch welches Kraft Solchs wird verschafft Kein Mensch versteht Wie das zugeht Noch wirds geschehn auf Erden Darum der Sohn Den du sollst han Gotts Sohn genennt soll werden |
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5 Noch weiter merk ein göttlich Werk Daran sollst du dich halten j Dir ist bekannt dazu verwandt Elisabeth die Alte Durch Gottes Gnad Ein Kindlein hat Von ihrem Mann enlpfangen Sechs Mond sind schier vergangen Die unfruchtbar Gezählet war Denn alle Ding Gott möglich sind Maria sprach zum Engel Sieh ich bin gern Die Magd des Herrn Mir g scheh nach deinen Worten |
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Neu-Eingerichtetes Gesang-Buch 1762 |
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| melody indication: O Jesu zart, in neuer Art. (see below, = NOT the same tune as Alberus ! )  |
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| Vollständiges Marburger Gesang-Buch 1799 | |||
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“O Jesu zart göttlicher Art” (H. Sachs, 1523), = “the hymn ‘Maria zart von edler Art’ altered and Christologically corrected,” as Sachs puts it in the Nürnberg Enchiridion of 1527. The melody is the original tune from “Maria zart…” The same original hymn was similarly amended in a 5-stanza form beginning “O Jesu zart in neuer Art,” appearing in the Bohemian Brethren Kirchengeseng (1533). |
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 Click the play button (right facing arrow) to listen to: "Maria zart von edler Art" Arnolt Schlick 1460-1517 |
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Internet references, biography information:
| http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erasmus_Alberus |
| Erasmus Alberus (c. 1500–1553), German humanist, reformer, and poet, was born in the village of Bruchenbrücken (now part of Friedberg, Hesse) about the year 1500. Although his father Tilemann Alber was a schoolmaster, his early education was neglected. Ultimately in 1518 he found his way to the University of Wittenberg, where he studied theology. He had the good fortune to attract the attention of Martin Luther and Philipp Melanchthon, and subsequently became one of Luther's most active helpers in the Protestant Reformation. Not only did he fight for the Protestant cause as a preacher and theologian, but he was almost the only member of Luther's party who was able to confront the Roman Catholics with the weapon of literary satire. In 1542 he published a prose satire to which Luther wrote the preface, Der Barfusser Monche Eulenspiegel und Alkoran, a parodic adaptation of the Liber conformitatum of the Franciscan Bartolommeo Rinonico of Pisa, in which the Franciscan order is held up to ridicule. Of higher literary value is the didactic and satirical Buch von der Tugend und Weisheit (1550), a collection
of forty-nine fables in which Alberus embodies his views on the relations of Church and State. His satire is incisive, but in a scholarly and humanistic way; it does not appeal to popular passions with the fierce directness which enabled the master of Catholic satire, Thomas Murner, to inflict such telling blows. Several of Alberus's hymns, all of which show the influence of his master Luther, have been retained in the German Protestant hymnal. After Luther's death, Alberus was for a time a deacon in Wittenberg; he became involved, however, in the political conflicts of the time, and was in Magdeburg in 1550-1551, while that town was besieged by Maurice, Elector of Saxony. In 1552 he was appointed Generalsuperintendent at Neubrandenburg in Mecklenburg,[1] where he died on the 5 May 1553. |
| http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/Ein-Engel-schon-aus-Gottes-Thron/17876003 |
| The same title in SATB, composer Michael Praetorius (1571-1621). Published by Doblinger Music Publishers (DB.S-00099). It is unknown if this is based on the same tune. |
| Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) John D. Julian (1839-1913) |
| Alber, Erasmus, son of Tileman Alber, afterwards pastor at Engelroth, was born at Sprendlingen c. 1500. After studying at Wittenberg under Luther and Melanchthon, he became, in 1525, schoolmaster at St. Ursel, near Frankfurt-am-Main, and in 1527 at Heldenbergen, in Hesse Darmstadt. In 1528 he was appointed by the Landgrave Philip of Hesse pastor at Sprendlingen and Götzenhain, where he devoted himself specially to the children of his charge. After 11 years' service he was appointed by the Elector Joachim of Brandenburg court preacher at Berlin, but proving too faithful for the court, was, in 1541, removed as chief pastor to Neu Brandenburg. In 1542 he became pastor at Stade, in Wetteravia, and while there received, in 1513, the degree of Doctor of Theology from the University of Wittenberg. He was then invited, in the beginning of 1545, by the Landgrave Philip IV. of Hanau Lichtenberg, to perfect the work of the Reformation in Babenhausen, but no sooner had he fairly entered upon it than, in the end of October, he received his dismissal. After a short stay at Sprendlingen and at Wittenberg, he became preacher at Magdeburg, where he strongly denounced the Interim (see Agricola). On the capitulation of Magdeburg, in 1551, after a 14 months' siege, he fled to Hamburg, and then went to Lübeck. Finally, in 1552, he was appointed by Duke Albrecht I. of Mecklenburg, General Superintendent of Mecklenburg, and preacher at St. Mary's Church in Neu Brandenburg. In addition to losing all his own and his wife's property by confiscation and necessary expenditure, he was there unable to obtain from the Town Council the payment of his stipend. On May 4, 1553, he applied for the payment of 60 florins to relieve his urgent necessities. The refusal broke his heart. He returned home to die, and fell asleep at 9 a.m. on May 5, 1553. One of the best writers for children in his day, and an ardent controversialist and martyr of freedom of speech, he has been by some ranked, as a hymn-writer, next to Luther, in the Reformation period. His hymns, 20 in all, were first collected by Dr. Stromberger, and published at Halle, 1857. Being mostly long, and ungainly in style, not many of them have kept a place in the hymn-books, though they have been justly styled "powerful and living witnesses of a steadfast faith and a manly trust in God's Word" (Koch, i. 301-306; Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie i. 219-20; Dr. Stromberger's Preface; Bode, pp. 35-36—the last stating that his father was a school¬master at Sprendlingen.) Two have been translated into English. One of these, beginning "Christe, du bist der hello Tag," is a translation, and is noted under, "Christe qui lux es et dies." The only original hymn by Alber translated into English is:— Nun freut euch Gottes Kinder all. [Ascension.] First published on a broadsheet, N.P. N.D., 1549, and thence in Wackernagel, iii. p. 881, in 29 stanzas of 4 lines. In a broadsheet at Nürnberg, c. 1555, it is entitled, "Of the Fruits of the Ascension of our Lord Christ and of the Gifts of the Holy Spirit," and begins—"Freut euch ihr Gottes Kinder all." This form is included in Dr. Stromberger's edition of Alber's Geistliche Lieder, 1857, p. 5. In the hymn-books it is generally abridged, and so the Berlin Geistliche Lieder, ed. 1863, 339, gives 16 stanzas (i.-vi., ix.-xi., xiii., xviii., xxv.-xxix., of the first form). A translation:— 0 Children of your God rejoice, of stanzas i., ii., iv., xxvii.-xxix., by A. T. Russell, is given as No. 122, in his Psalms & Hymns 1851. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] |
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