"Surrexit Christus Hodie"-- composer of this setting?
  • shawnk
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    Anyone know the composer of this setting of "Surrexit Christus Hodie"? I've checked CPDL and YouTube but haven't been successful, thus far-- unless it's just a variant of Preatorius' work, which it sounds like it could be.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPu7SXb5Lyw
  • There are many settings since this was a popular hymn in Germany, Poland, and Slavic countries. Being pre-reformation, but primarily scriptural, it continued on in Protestant use. I'll add a copy of a pure form of the hymn tune, and this comment by Charles Sanford Terry in his Bach Chorales: The Easter Carol, “Surrexit Christus hodie,” of which “Erstanden ist der heil’ge Christ” is a translation, dates at least from the fourteenth century and exists in several forms. The German hymn also is found in many versions. The melody (supra) proper to the Latin Carol is found in Michael Weisse’s Ein New Gesengbuchlen (Jung Bunzlau, 1531), and is the descant melody of a four-part setting (supra) in Michael Praetorius’ Musae Sioniae (Part V, 1607).
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  • Richard MixRichard Mix
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    Thanks Rob! The Praetorius is on CPDL and is now linked from the textpage Surrexit Christus hodie.
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