Hymn to the holy spirit | Come, holy spirit! listen to our prayers

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possibly by Adolf Anton Schmidl (1802 - 1863)

Translation © by Malcolm Wren

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]¹ 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]²,
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.

¹ Schubert (in the repetition): "zu"
² Schubert (Alte Gesamtausgabe): "dem Himmelslicht"

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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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "Himne a l’Esperit Sant", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Malcolm Wren) , "Hymn to the holy spirit", copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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: 53

Hymn to the holy spirit

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

Come, holy spirit! listen to our prayers
Which rise with longing to you, to you in accordance with your promise.
Come down to us, you comforter,
Instill the peace of heaven in our hearts.

Oh come to strengthen the courage of our faith,
Do not abandon us on our path,
You ambassador from the light of heaven,
And lead us to what is right and good!

Text Authorship:

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Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) possibly by Adolf Anton Schmidl (1802 - 1863)
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This text was added to the website: 2020-06-09
Line count: 8
Word count: 66