Heinrich Schütz Herr, unser Herrscher

O Lord, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens. Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger. When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained. What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet: All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field; the fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas. O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!
Ps 8
Translation: King James Bible
Glory be to the Father and to the Son, and to the

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Herr, unser Herrscher, wie herrlich ist dein Nam’ in allen Landen, da man dir danket im Himmel. Aus dem Munde der jungen Kinder und Säuglinge hast du eine Macht zugerichtet um deiner Feinde willen, dass du vertilgest den Feind und den Rachgierigen. Denn ich werde sehen die Himmel, deiner Finger Werk, den Monden und die Sterne, die du bereitest. Was ist der Mensch, dass du sein gedenkest, und des Menschen Kind, dass du dich sein annimmst? Du wirst ihn lassen ein’ kleine Zeit von Gott verlassen sein, aber mit Ehren und Schmuck wirst du ihn krönen. Du wirst ihn zum Herren machen über deiner Hände Werk. Alles hast du unter seine Füße getan, Schaf und Ochsen allzumal, darzu auch die wilden Tier, die Vögel unter dem Himmel und die Fisch im Meer, und was im Meer gehet. Herr, unser Herrscher, wie herrlich ist dein Nam’ in allen Landen!
Ps 8
Ehre sei dem Vater und dem Sohn und auch dem

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Oliver Geisler
Translation: Elizabeth Robinson

“intended for singing”
The “Psalmen Davids” and the art of consolation Heinrich Schütz was fortunate. In the years around 1600 the number of portents of the end of the world increased. And this would also naturally affect the Dresden court, even if it sometimes seemed to be in a world of its own. Constellations of stars, curious events, cometary impacts – all these happenings were rapidly broadcast through the mass media of the Baroque – pamphlets and articles. And the more frequently there were signs giving cause for concern, the nearer the predicted end approached. In the mid-16th century, 2046 was marked out as the end. But at the time when Schütz took up his post in Dresden, the year 1625 was regarded as the point in time when the ‘last trumpet’ would sound. None of this happened – as stated, he was fortunate,

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