page 1 | Hark! The Herald Angels Sing Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Guitar solo (standard notation) |
Composer | Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Felix (1809 - 1847) | ||||
Instrumentation | Guitar solo (standard notation) | ||||
Sheet central | Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (98 sheet music) 1 other version | ||||
Style | Christmas - Carols | ||||
Arranger | Gibson, Gorden (1943 - ) | ||||
Publisher | Gibson, Gorden | ||||
Date | December 11, 2013 | ||||
Copyright | Gibson, Gorden © All rights reserved | ||||
Added by gorden-gibson, 10 Dec 2013
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing is the result of
alterations by various hands, notably by Charles
Wesley's co-worker George Whitefield who changed the
opening couplet to the familiar one, and by Felix
Mendelssohn. A hundred years after the publication of
Hymns and Sacred Poems, in 1840, Mendelssohn composed a
cantata to commemorate Johann Gutenberg's invention of
the printing press, and it is music from this cantata,
adapted by the English musician William H. Cummings to
fit the lyrics of “Hark! ...(+)
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