Neujahrstage, Op. 79, No. 2 (Felix Mendelssohn)
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- CPDL #256:
Finale 1998
- Editor: Rafael Ornes (submitted 1999-08-15). Score information: 72 kbytes Copyright: CPDL
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Title: Neujahrstage, Op. 79, No. 2
Composer: Felix Mendelssohn
Number of voices: 8vv Voicing: SSAATTBB
Genre: Sacred, Motet
Language: German
Instruments: a cappella
Published: Mendelssohn's Werke (1874-77)
Description: No. 2 of Sechs Sprüche
External websites:
- English translation in PDF and Word documents (also below)
Original text and translations
German text
Am Neujahrstage
- Herr Gott, du bist unsre Zuflucht für und für.
- Ehe denn die Berge worden, und die Erde und die
- Welt erschaffen worden, bist du Gott von Ewigkeit
- zu Ewigkeit.
- Hallelujah!
English translation
On New Year's Day
- Lord God, you are our refuge for evermore.
- You are our God from age to age, from before the
- mountains were made, and the lands and the world
- were created.
- Hallelujah!
English translation by Barbara Kilpatrick, PDF and Word documents also available here.