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Mitten wir im Leben sind, Op. 23, No. 3 (Felix Mendelssohn)
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= HELP- Editor: Robert Urmann (submitted 2011-07-28). Score information: Executive, 14 pages, 376 kbytes Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes:
Possible error(s) identified. Error summary: Lyric variation from other editions in measures 9 and 13. --Ab73 19:39, 1 February 2012 (CST) (See discussion page for full description)
- Editor: Arie Fokkens (submitted 2007-08-02). Score information: A4, 8 pages, 284 kbytes Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: partly condensed score: where possible written on 4 staves
- Editor: Arie Fokkens (submitted 2007-08-02). Score information: A4, 11 pages, 350 kbytes Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: full 8-staff score
General Information
Title: Mitten wir im Leben sind, MWV B 21 (Op. 23, No. 3)
Composer: Felix Mendelssohn
Lyricist: Martin Luther, the first stanza from Media vita in morte sumus. Notker, A.D. 912
Number of voices: 8vv Voicing: SSAATTBB
Genre: Sacred, Motet
Language: German
Instruments: a cappella
Published: Dr. Martin Luther’s Deutsche Geistliche Lieder. The Hymns of Martin Luther set to their original Melodies with an English version, ed. Leonard Woolsey Bacon and Nathan H. Allen (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1884)
Description:
External websites:
- The Hymns of Martin Luther on The Online Library of Liberty
- digitized score at MDZ
Original text and translations
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Mitten wir im Leben sind
Laß uns nicht versinken
Laß uns nicht verzagen
Laß uns nicht entfallen
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Though in midst of life we be,
Save us, Lord, from sinking
Let not hell dismay us
From the true faith’s comfort
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German text
English translation
