The litany "Kyrie eleison"
Deutsche Litanei. Aus: Zwölf geistliche Gesänge SWV 428, 1657
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Kyrie eleison. Christe eleison. Kyrie eleison.
Kyrie eleison, Christe eleison, Kyrie eleison
Christe hear us, we pray.
God the Father in heaven, have mercy upon us.
God the Son, our Redeemer, …
God the Holy Ghost, …
O, be gracious, and spare us, we beseech thee, Lord.
O, be gracious, help us, we beseech thee, Lord.
From all our transgressions protect us, we beseech thee, Lord.
From all our blindness …
And from all evil …
From the Devil’s wiles and crafts …
From sudden, violent death …
From pestilence and time of dearth …
From war and blood …
From schism and rebellion …
From peril in storm and tempest …
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9. Die deutsche Litanei
Kyrie eleison, Christe eleison, Kyrie eleison.
Kyrie eleison, Christe eleison, Kyrie eleison
Christe, erhöre uns.
Herr Gott Vater im Himmel, erbarm dich über uns,
Herr Gott Sohn, der Welt Heiland, …
Herr Gott Heiliger Geist, …
Sei uns gnädig, verschon uns, lieber Herre Gott.
Sei uns gnädig, hilf uns, lieber Herre Gott.
Vor allen Sünden behüt uns, lieber Herre Gott.
Vor allem Irrsal …
Vor allem Übel …
Vor des Teufels Trug und List …
Vor bösem, schnellem Tod …
Vor Pestilenz und teurer Zeit …
Vor Krieg und Blut …
Vor Aufruhr und Zwietracht …
Vor Hagel und Ungewitter …
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Text from the CD Carus 83.239
Oliver Geisler
Translation: Liz RobinsonFor “practical use”: Introduction
A glance at music history always reveals more than just music. For music can also be regarded as a mirror or the essence of a whole culture. Indeed, even more importantly, studying and listening to music means learning something about societies and people. How valuable, therefore, are those works which are all too readily labelled “Gebrauchsmusik” (functional music) and consigned to oblivion in favor of the compositional high points of an era. Such works offer a glimpse into the workshops, laboratories, studies and living rooms of a society. Churches, castles and reception rooms are beautiful and imposing, but they also dazzle – because they are always designed to impress. Functional music is concerned with the everyday and with “real life.” And precisely because of this, such works are still performed today, even if they at first appear less grand.Of the Zwölf geistliche Gesänge it is said that Schütz “sketched them in his spare time.” Evidently
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Booklet-Text der CD Carus 83.239
Oliver Geisler
Zum „nützlichen Gebrauch“: Einführung
Ein Blick in die Musikgeschichte lässt einen immer mehr erkennen als nur Musik. Denn Musik kann auch als Spiegel oder Bündelung von Kultur insgesamt begriffen werden. Ja mehr noch: Musik zu betrachten und zu hören bedeutet, etwas über Gesellschaften zu erfahren und über Menschen. Wie wertvoll sind da jene Werke, die man als sogenannte „Gebrauchsmusik“ allzu gern zugunsten des kompositorischen Höhenkamms einer Epoche in die Versenkung schiebt! Kann man mit ihnen doch einen Blick in die Werkstätten, Experimentierstuben, Arbeits- und Wohnzimmer einer Gesellschaft erhaschen. Kirchen, Schlösser und festliche Säle sind schön und repräsentativ, sie blenden aber auch – weil sie immer schon auf Repräsentation angelegt sind. Gebrauchsmusiken haben etwas mit Alltag und dem „wahren Leben“ zu tun. Nicht zuletzt deshalb werden solche Werke auch heute noch gebraucht, auch wenn sie zunächst weniger glanzvoll...
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Composer
Heinrich Schütz
| 1585-1672Heinrich Schütz is regarded as the first German musician of European stature. As a choirboy from 1599 at the court of Landgrave Moritz of Hessen-Kassel, he received a thorough education. In 1608 he began a law degree in Marburg, but broke this off in 1609 in order, with the support of the Landgrave, to study composition with Giovanni Gabrieli, organist at St Mark’s in Venice. In 1613 Schütz returned to Kassel, but two years later was enticed away by Elector Johann Georg I of Saxony to the Dresden court as “Organist und Director der Musica”, where he held the position of Hofkapellmeister (court Kapellmeister) from 1617 until his death. Schütz’s great cycles of vocal works marked the high point of his reputation in Germany and northern Europe. But these represent only part of Schütz’s output; individual works are represented in printed collections with works by other composers, others only survive in manuscript, and much has been lost. The Stuttgart Schütz Edition makes available Schütz’s complete oeuvre, and all works are also published in practical Urtext editions. Personal details
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Editor
Günter Graulich
| 1926The publisher, church musician and teacher Günter Graulich is one of the major personalities in German publishing of the post-war period. With his wife Waltraud he founded Carus-Verlag Stuttgart in 1972, which he built up from a 2-person family firm to a medium-sized business with around 60 employees. A trained church musician and Kantor for many years at the Matthäuskirche Stuttgart, he also directed the Motettenchor Stuttgart for 50 years. With his choir he made LP and CD recordings, and undertook numerous concert tours to other European countries and America. Personal details
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Songwriter / Librettist
Martin Luther
| 1483-1546
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Continuo realization
Paul Horn
| 1922-2016Paul Horn war ein deutscher Kirchenmusiker, Organist, Komponist und Musikwissenschaftler. Er studierte Kirchenmusik und Orgel an der Evangelischen Kirchenmusikschule Esslingen am Neckar bei Hans-Arnold Metzger und Musikwissenschaft, Theologie und Geschichte an der Universität Tübingen. Seine berufliche Laufbahn begann als Kantor an der Evangelischen Michaelskirche in Stuttgart-Degerloch. 1954 wurde er Kantor an der Evangelischen Stadtkirche Ravensburg, eine Position, die er bis zu seiner Pensionierung innehatte. Als Musikwissenschaftler arbeitete Horn bis ins hohe Alter eng mit Carus zusammen. So stammen zahlreiche Carus-Klavierauszüge aus seiner Feder. Personal details
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Translator
Margaret Schubert
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