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Gottfried Vopelius
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Gottfried Vopelius (1645–1715) was a German Lutheran cantor and teacher whose name is inseparable from the chorale culture of Leipzig. Born near Zittau and active in Leipzig for the decisive part of his career, he became best known as the compiler of the Neu Leipziger Gesangbuch (1682), a large hymnbook that gathered and shaped the repertory sung in church and school. Preserved today as a complete early print, the book stands as Vopelius’s chief monument: a practical, authoritative snapshot of late-17th-century Lutheran devotion and its musical language, and a source that later musicians and scholars continue to mine when tracing the transmission of German chorales. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
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Chorale: In dulci jubilo
112Christ unser Herr zum Jordan kam
103Chorale: Quem pastores laudavere
84Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir
55Fünf Trauerchöre, Op: 9/1. Ach wie nichtig
36Neu Leipziger Gesangbuch: Der Tag, der ist so freundenreich
17Neu Leipziger Gesangbuch - In Dulci Jubilo, Chorale
18Congregational Chorale: Vom Himmel hoch
19Congregational Chorale: Puer natus in Bethlehem
110Neu Leipziger Gesangbuch - Quem pastores laudavere, chorale
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