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Born: December 2, 1670, Gandersheim, Harz Mountains, Germany.

Died: February 12, 1739, Halle, Germany.

Freylinghausen studied theology at the Universities of Jena (1689), and Halle (1692). In 1695 he started work at the orphanage and Pädagogium (educational institute) of Halle an der Saale. He married the director’s daughter and himself became director in 1727. He was also pastor at St. Ulrich Church in Halle.

Freylinghausen wrote and composed 44 hymns. In 1697, he published the first edition of his Geistreiches Gesangbuch (Spiritual Hymnal). The 1704 edition included 683 hymns (83 of them by Paul Gerhardt) with 174 hymn tunes. This was the most important hymn collection of the Pietistic period of Lutheran hymnody. In the following decades, more hymns were added, and by 1741 it had 1,581 hymns with 597 tunes.

Sources

* Frost, p. 671
* Hughes, pp. 395-6
* Julian, pp. 395-6
* Stulken, pp. 132-3
* Telford, p. 328

Music

1. Das Ist Meine Freude
2. Dir, Dir, Jehovah
3. Gott Sei Dank durch Alle Welt
4. Irene
5. Jesus Ist das Schönste Licht
6. Lobe Den Herren, O Meine Seele
7. Macht Hoch die Tür
8. Sebastian

Source: http://www.cyberhymnal.org/bio/f/r/freylinghausen_ja.html

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Born: December 2, 1670 - Gandersheim, Harz Mountains, Germany
Died: February 12, 1739 - Halle, Germany

Johann Anastasius Freylinghausen studied theology at the Universities of Jena (1689), and Halle (1692). In 1695 he started work at the orphanage and Pädagogium (educational institute) of Halle an der Saale. He married the director’s daughter and himself became director in 1727. He was also pastor at St. Ulrich Church in Halle.

Johann Anastasius Freylinghausen wrote and composed 44 hymns. In 1697, he published the first edition of his Geistreiches Gesangbuch (Spiritual Hymnal). The 1704 edition included 683 hymns (83 of them by Paul Gerhardt) with 174 hymn tunes. This was the most important hymn collection of the Pietistic period of Lutheran hymnody. In the following decades, more hymns were added, and by 1741 it had 1,581 hymns with 597 tunes.

Source: http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Lib/Freylinghausen-Johann-Anastasius.html

Born: December 15, 1620 - probably Weimar, Thuringia, Germany
Died: February 15, 1701 - Arnstadt, Thuringia, Germany

Adam Drese studied music at Warsaw under Marco Scacchi.

Drese was director at Weimar from 1655. Afterwards held similar appointments to the Duke of Brunswick, and at Arnstadt, where he died in 1701, shortly before J.S. Bach came there. The following occurs in the notice of Drese’s death in the Arnstadt church records: On February 15, 1701, at 10 o’clock in the evening, Herr Adam Drese fell asleep in God. . . . Age, 80 years, 2 months.


Source: ELHHB Website [Dahle, Library of Christian Hymns; Handbook to the Lutheran Hymnal]
Contributed by Aryeh Oron (August 2003)

eHymns Source: http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Lib/Drese.htm

Born in the Van Wert Ohio County Hospital on June 27, 1960, Alvin (Bud) Herman Manz, Jr. was the 3rd of 4 sons born to Betty Manz and firstborn to her second husband, Alvin.

His older siblings, John Paul Rose, Jr. (1956) and Joseph Henry Rose (1957), were born to John Paul Rose. In 1958, John Sr. passed away leaving Betty with 2 little boys to care for until she met Alvin Manz and got married to him on October 3, 1959.

Bud's younger sibling, Robert James Manz, Sr., was born on August 23, 1961.

Bud never married, instead he lives with his father just south of Defiance Ohio.