Werde munter, mein Gemüte

"Werde munter, mein Gemüte" (Var glad, mitt sinne) är en Luthersk aftonhymn skriven av Johannes Rist med tolv 8-radiga verser, tryckt 1642. Den översattes till engelska och fanns i 67 psalm/sångböcker.

Historia

Först publicerad som "Dritte Zehen" i Rist's Himlische Lieder (Himmelska sånger) i Lüneburg 1642. Den hade undertiteln "A Christian evening hymn, with which to commit oneself to the protection of the Most High". Johann Crüger tog med den i sin 1656 års utgåva av Praxis pietatis melica.

Melodi

Melodin är komponerad av Johann Schop och är listad som Zahn nr 6551.

Användning till andra psalmer

The same hymn melody was assigned to the song "Jesu, meiner Seelen Wonne" written by Martin Janus (or Jahn). Bach used it in the Leipzig version of his cantata Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147. It became famous as the arrangement Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring.

The tune for "Werde munter" was also paired with "Like the Golden Sun Ascending," which was translated from selected stanzas of Thomas Kingo's 1689 "Som den gyldne Sol frembryder."

Annan användning

• Georg Philipp Telemann composed a cantata Werde munter, mein Gemüte, TWV 1:1576, for choir, strings and continuo before 1760.
• Johann Sebastian Bach
  • used the hymn's sixth stanza, "Bin ich gleich von dir gewichen", in his cantata Ich armer Mensch, ich Sündenknecht, BWV 55, and in his
  • St Matthew Passion.
• Max Reger composed a chorale prelude as No. 48 of his 52 Chorale Preludes, Op. 67 in 1902, and
• Sigfrid Karg-Elert wrote an improvisation as part of his 66 Chorale improvisations for organ, Op. 65.

Översättningar till engelska

• J C Jacobi, who published "Rouse thy self my Soul and gather" in his Psalmodia Germanica, 1722,
• Catherine Winkworth, who published "Sink not yet, my soul, to slumber" in 1858 in her Lyra Germanica. The song appeared in 67 hymnals.

Källor

• [https://archive.org/details/1508286757bsb11304502/page/n110 105 Zahn

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