Hymns and Classical lovers

All the sequences and arrangements are copyrighted © 1998-2000 Rev. Richard Jordan, and are for personal enjoyment (and inspiration) only, all other rights reserved. Copyright administered by  On Jordan's Banks Music Publishing on the web at  www.OnJordansBanks.com Musical Scores  for all these  (and more)  hymns are available. Voller Wunder  - Safely Through Another Week - J Ebling (1665) # 011 for brass quintet (baroque) also used by TLH 391, 537 Winchester New  - This Day at Thy Creating Word - Hamburg (1690) # 012 for brass quintet (baroque) also used by TLH 162, 256 Old Hunderdth  - Before Jehovah's Awe-full Throne - Geneva (1551) # 013 for brass quintet (baroque) also used by TLH 14, 52, 254, 289, 309, 644 Lasst uns erfreuen  - From All that Dwell Below the Skies - Cologne (1623) # 015 for brass quintet (baroque) also used by TLH 212, 475 Liebster Jesu  - Blessed Jesus at Thy Word - J Ahle (1664) # 016 for brass quintet (baroque) also used by TLH 45, 300, 411 L

Georg Friederich Händel  was born in 1685, a vintage year indeed for baroque composers, in Halle on the Saale river in Thuringia, Germany on February 23rd. From Germany to England – via Italy. Though his father had intended him for the law, Handel's own musical inclinations seem always to have been clear to him. At the age of 18, in 1703, he traveled to Hamburg, where he took a job as a violinist at the Hamburg Opera and gave private lessons to support himself. He became acquainted with Johann Mattheson (who later chronicled the known events of Handel's life during his stay there) and together they visited Buxtehude in Lübeck in that first year. In the new year Handel's first two operas were produced,  Almira  and  Nero . Whilst in Hamburg, Handel made the acquaintance of Prince Ferdinando de' Medici, son and heir of the Grand Duke of Tuscany, who invited Handel to visit Italy where he spent more than three years, in Florence, Rome, Naples and Venice. By 1706 he

God is love: Hymn downloads

FEBRUARY 1 BEFORE THY THRONE, O GOD, WE KNEEL Author: William Boyd Carpenter [1841–1918] Date of Writing; Unknown Music and Metre: St Petersburg or any 8.8.8.8.8.8         1      Before Thy throne, O God, we kneel;  2      For sins of heedless word and deed,         Give us a conscience quick to feel,             For pride, ambitious to succeed,         A ready mind to understand                          For crafty trade and subtle snare         The meaning of Thy chastening hand;                   To catch the simple unaware,                   Whate’er the pain and shame may be,                   For lives bereft of purpose high,         Bring us, O Father, nearer Thee.                 Forgive, forgive, O Lord, we cry.                                                                                               4      Let the fierce fires which burn and try                                                 Our inmost spirits purify: