MONTHLY MUSIC & TIPS: Ein Feste Burg

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Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott (A Mighty Fortress is Our God) is one of the best-known hymns by Martin Luther, a prolific hymnwriter. Luther wrote the words and composed the hymn tune between 1527 and 1529. It has been translated into English at least seventy times and into many other languages. The first line is a paraphrase of Psalm 46. 
The hymn has been used by numerous composers. This setting for organ was composed by Johann Gottfried Walther (1684 –1748), who was a German music theorist, organist, composer, and lexicographer of the Baroque era. His life was contemporaneous to that of his famous second cousin and close friend, Johann Sebastian Bach.