“O Lord, Look Down from Heaven, Behold” (Ach Gott vom Himmel, sieh darein), text by Martin Luther (1523). Tune, Erfurt (1524). Setting by Hans Leo Hassler (1608). Homophonic, SATB.
Recording of stanza 5. Mount Hope Lutheran School Kammerchor, February 2024.
Hans Leo Hassler (1564-1612) was an organist and composer who served in Augsburg, Nürnberg, and Dresden. His Psalmen und Geistliche Lieder, published in 1608, contains 71 choral settings of Lutheran hymns. Hassler was succeeded as Kapellmeister in Dresden by Michael Praetorius.
Anytime, Reformation
Ach Gott vom Himmel sieh darein, ELH 440, hymn-based, Martin Luther, TLH 260
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