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Composer | Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Felix (1809 - 1847) | ||
Instrumentation | Horn Quartet | ||
Sheet central | Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (98 sheet music) | ||
Style | Christmas - Carols | ||
Arranger | Dewagtere, Bernard (1958 - ) | ||
Date | 1840 | ||
Copyright | Copyright © Dewagtere, Bernard | ||
Other title | from Gutenberg Cantata | ||
Added by bernard-dewagtere, 04 Dec 2011
?Hark! The Herald Angels Sing? is a Christmas carol
that first appeared in 1739 in the collection Hymns and
Sacred Poems, having been written by Charles Wesley.
This is not the version widely known today. The popular
version is the result of alterations by various hands,
notably George Whitefield, Wesley's co-worker, who
changed the opening couplet to the familiar one, and
Felix Mendelssohn. A hundred years after the
publication of Hymns and Sacred Poems, in 1840,
Mendelssohn composed a cantata ...(+)
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