Freylinghausen’s Gesangbuch (1704)

Composer

Johann Anastasius Freylinghausen (b Gandersheim, Brunswick, Germany 1670, d Halle, Germany 1739) published his Geist-reiches Gesang-Buch, den Kern alter und neuer Lieder…in 1704; many other edns followed, giving the original form of some classic hymn tunes in wide use ever since. No.846.