Die güldne Sonne voll Freud und Wonne

"Die güldne Sonne voll Freud und Wonne" (The golden sun full of joy and delight) is a Christian morning hymn with a text written by Paul Gerhardt in 1666, and a melody by Johann Georg Ebeling. It was first published in a collection of Ebeling's melodies for texts by Gerhardt's, Pauli Gerhardi Geistliche Andachten, which was printed by Christoph Runge in Berlin in 1666/67. The song was number 25, under the header "Morgen-Segen" (Morning – Blessing).[1]

"Die güldne Sonne voll Freud und Wonne"
Christian morning hymn
EnglishThe golden sun full of joy and delight
Textby Paul Gerhardt
LanguageGerman
Melodyby Johann Georg Ebeling
Published1666 (1666)

The song was published with a different melody by Jacob Hintze in the 1671 edition of Johann Crüger's hymnal Praxis Pietatis Melica.[2]

The hymn has twelve stanzas of 10 lines each, rhyming aa bb c dd ee c. In the German Protestant hymnal, Evangelisches Gesangbuch, it is EG 449.[1]

References

  1. "Lieder von Paul Gerhardt" (PDF) (in German). iah-hymnologie.de. Retrieved 30 July 2017.
  2. "Die güldne Sonne". The Free Lutheran Chorale-Book. Retrieved 30 July 2017.
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