Melody and text in the first print in Praxis Pietatis Melica
English
"Ah! Lord, how shall I meet Thee"
Text
by Paul Gerhardt
Language
German
Melody
by Johann Crüger
Published
1653 (1653)
"Wie soll ich dich empfangen" ("Ah! Lord, how shall I meet Thee",[1] literally: How shall I receive you) is a Christian hymn for Advent by Paul Gerhardt. It was first published in 1653 in the fifth edition of the hymnal Praxis Pietatis Melica by Johann Crüger, who also created a melody. Johann Sebastian Bach used it as a chorale in his Christmas Oratorio, but with a different melody. Catherine Winkworth translated five of its ten stanzas.
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