LIEBSTER JESU WIR SIND HIER

LIEBSTER JESU WIR SIND HIER is a hymn tune in 7.8.7.8.8.8, composed by Johann Rudolph Ahle (1625–1673) (1664). In a hymnal the tune has a name of its own, printed in capitals, because the same music carries many texts: any hymn written in its meter can be sung to it.

In this library it is the tune for 1 hymn, listed below.

The four-part harmony played here comes from the Open Hymnal Project's public-domain edition (copied from "Kern des Deutschen Kirchengesangs zum Gebrauch Evangelisch-Lutherischer Gemeinden und Familien", 1854 by Fridrich Layriz Hymn 75 page 46). Choose any text below and press play to hear the words sung to LIEBSTER JESU WIR SIND HIER, with the lines highlighted as they come — on organ, piano or guitar, in any key.

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