Hymnus an den heiligen Geist | Komm' heil'ger Geist! erhöre unser Flehen

possibly by Adolf Anton Schmidl (1802 - 1863)

Hymnus an den heiligen Geist

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: CAT ENG

Komm' heil'ger Geist! erhöre unser Flehen,
Die sehnend auf zu dir, zu dir Verheißnem sehen.
Herab auf uns komm, Tröster du,
In unser Herz leg' Himmelsruh'.

O komm zu stärken unsern Glaubensmuth,
Verlaß auf unserm Pfad uns nicht,
Du Bote aus des Himmels Licht,
Und leite uns zu dem, was recht und gut!

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Note: This is the text from Schubert's manuscript. The first edition of Schubert's Hymnus an den heiligen Geist, published as op. posth. 154 by Anton Diabelli in 1849, conveys a rather different text.

Text Authorship:

possibly by Adolf Anton Schmidl (1802 - 1863) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Franz Peter Schubert (1797 - 1828), "Hymnus an den heiligen Geist", D 941 [ ttbb quartet and ttbb chorus ], note: D. 941 has been removed and included as the first version in D. 948 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Franz Peter Schubert (1797 - 1828), "Hymnus an den heiligen Geist", D 964, note: D. 964 has been removed and included as the second version in D. 948 [sung text checked 1 time]

Set in a modified version by Franz Peter Schubert.

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Research team for this page: Guy Laffaille [Guest Editor] , Peter Rastl [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2011-11-06
Line count: 8
Word count: 56