Ewigkeit ist ein Zeit ohn End (Jacob Meiland)
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- Editor: Gerhard Weydt (submitted 2022-02-10). Score information: A4, 2 pages, 97 kB Copyright: CPDL
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Title: Ewigkeit ist ein Zeit ohn End
Composer: Jacob Meiland
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Number of voices: 4vv Voicings: SATB or STTB
Genre: Sacred, Sacred song
Language: German
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1590 Cygneae cantiones (Jacob Meiland), no. 20
Description: Dedicated to the lord mayors and the members of the council of Celle (Lower Saxony).
In the Discantus Meiland cites the melody of „Es ist auf Erd kein schwerer Leid’n“ (a secular song), which some time later was used for the hymn „Ich hab mein Sach Gott heimgestellt“. It has been set among others by Heinrich Schütz (De vitae fugacitate and Ich hab mein Sach Gott heimgestellt) and Johann Sebastian Bach (Ich hab mein Sach Gott heimgestellt, BWV 351 and in the orchestral accompaniment to Cantata BWV 106).
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![]() Ewigkeit ist ein Zeit ohn End, |
![]() Eternity is a time without end,
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