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Treuer Heiland, wir sind hier

Author: Chr. H. Zeller, 1779-1860 Appears in 23 hymnals Used With Tune: [Treuer Heiland, wir sind hier]

[Treuer Heiland, wir sind hier]

Appears in 920 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Konrad Kocher Incipit: 17121 44367 16555 Used With Text: Treuer Heiland, wir sind hier

[Treuer Heiland, wir sind hier]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: J. M. B. Incipit: 12354 32155 75651 Used With Text: Treuer Heiland, wir sind hier

[Treuer Heiland, wir sind hier]

Appears in 1 hymnal Tune Sources: Leipzig, 1785 Incipit: 12311 71712 1765 Used With Text: Treuer Heiland, wir sind hier

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Treuer Heiland, wir sind hier

Hymnal: Frohe Lieder und Brüder-Harfe #103 (1898) Languages: German Tune Title: [Treuer Heiland, wir sind hier]

Treuer Heiland, wir sind hier

Author: C. H. Zeller Hymnal: Gesangbuch der Evangelischen Gemeinschaft #6 (1912) Languages: German Tune Title: [Treuer Heiland, wir sind hier]

Author: Christian Heinrich Zeller Hymnal: Gesangbuch der Evangelisch-reformierten Kirchen der deutschsprachigen Schweiz #204 (1952) Languages: German Tune Title: [Treuer Heiland, wir sind hier]

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Conrad Kocher

1786 - 1872 Person Name: Konrad Kocher 1786-1872 Composer of "[Treuer Heiland, wir sind hier]" in Vierstimmige Melodien für das Gesangbuch Trained as a teacher, Conrad Kocher (b. Ditzingen, Wurttemberg, Germany, 1786; d. Stuttgart, Germany, 1872) moved to St. Petersburg, Russia, to work as a tutor at the age of seventeen. But his love for the music of Haydn and Mozart impelled him to a career in music. He moved back to Germany in 1811, settled in Stuttgart, and remained there for most of his life. The prestigious Cotta music firm published some of his early compositions and sent him to study music in Italy, where he came under the influence of Palestrina's music. In 1821 Kocher founded the School for Sacred Song in Stuttgart, which popularized four-part singing in the churches of that region. He was organist and choir director at the Stiftskirche in Stuttgart from 1827 to 1865. Kocher wrote a treatise on church music, Die Tonkunst in der Kirche (1823), collected a large number of chorales in Zions Harfe (1855), and composed an oratorio, two operas, and some sonatas. William H. Monk created the current form of DIX by revising and shortening Conrad Kocher's chorale melody for “Treuer Heiland, wir sind hier,” found in Kocher's Stimmen aus dem Reiche Gottes (1838). Bert Polman

Christian Heinrich Zeller

1779 - 1860 Person Name: Christian Heinrich Zeller, 1779-1860 Author of "Treuer Heiland, wir sind hier" in Gesangbuch Zeller, Christian Heinrich, son of Christian David Zeller, Hofrath at Hohenentringen, near Tubingen, was born at Hohenentringen, March 29, 1779. He matriculated at the University of Tübingen in 1797, as a student of law. After completing his studies he chose, however, the profession of teaching. He became director of the Latin School at Zoffingen, Switzerland, in 1809, and finally removed in April, 1820; to Beuggen on the Rhine (Baden), near Basel, as director of the newly founded Institution there, meant for the education of poor children and for the training of teachers for poor children. He died at Beuggen, May 18, 1860 (Koch, vii. 188, &c). Zeller was best known as an educationist, and in con¬nection with the working of the Institution at Beuggen. His hymns, which are simple, Scriptural and earnest, were written primarily for use at Beuggen, and mostly appeared in the Monatsblatt (begun in 1828), and other publications of the Institution. They came into notice through their reception into Knapp's Evangelischer Lieder-Schatz, 1837. They were collected by Zeller's son, and published in 1871, as Lieder der Armenschullehrer-Anstalt Beuggen, 58 being original. Two of these hymns have passed into English, viz.:— i. Gott bei mir an jedem Orte. Omnipresence. On the joy of God's Presence with us. This appeared in the Monatsblatt in 1828, and was included in the 1871 as above, p. 88. In Knapp's Evangelischer Lieder-Schatz , 1837, No. 32 (1865, No. 32), in 6 stanzas of 6 lines; in the Berlin Geistliche Lieder, ed. 1863, No. 1554, &c. The translation in common use is:— My God with me in every place. This is a good translation, omitting st. v., by Mrs. Findlater in Hymns from the Land of Luther, 1st Ser., 1854, p. 30 (1884, p. 33); repeated, omitting st. iv., in Holy Song, 1869, No. 588. In Miss Warner's Hymns of the Church Militant, 1858, it begins, "My God is with me every place." Another translation is: "God in every place is near me." By R. Massie, in the British Herald, May, 1865, p. 70, and in Reid's Praise Book, 1872, No. 438. ii. Treuer Heiland, wir sind hier. Public Worship. This is in the 1871 as above, p. 64. Included in Knapp's Evangelischer Lieder-Schatz 1837, No. 857 (1865, No. 1256), in 5 stanzas of 7 lines; and repeated in the Württemberg Gesang-Buch, 1842, No. 235. For this hymn Conrad Kocher wrote the well-known melody which in Hymns Ancient & Modern is called Dix, and which first appeared, set to Zeller's hymn, in Kocher's Stimmen aus dem Meiche Gottes, Stuttgart, 1838, No. 201. Translates as:— Saviour, here to Thee we come. This is a free translation of stanzas i., ii., v., marked as by "F. C. C.” as No. 155 in Dr. Pagenstecher's Collection, 1864. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)