Luther's contributions to Christian music in German was based on his intimate knowledge of the great tradition of chants in Latin. Far from repudiating this part of his life Luther, after his break with Rome, began to translate many of these great texts into German. He was a first class hymn writer and his translations were remarkable. He set many of them to new music of his own - he was very good at this - then Bach set some of these texts to melodies that inspire us all. What a story it is.
I am fortunate to have been educated entirely free from anti 'Protestant'
prejudice. For this I am thankful to the Carmelite priests and to the lay teachers at Terenure
College which I attended from October 1954 to June 1956. This cost my parents nothing
because I had been accepted after an interview in Whitefriars Street as a candidate for the
priesthood.
I failed but I have never ceased to draw water for life from that fountain that
was Terenure College in those years of gold...
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@muisire Given that my mother's family are Anglican I'm glad to hear it :-)
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Luther's contributions to Christian music in German was based on his intimate knowledge of the great tradition of chants in Latin. Far from repudiating this part of his life Luther, after his break with Rome, began to translate many of these great texts into German. He was a first class hymn writer and his translations were remarkable. He set many of them to new music of his own - he was very good at this - then Bach set some of these texts to melodies that inspire us all. What a story it is.
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I have admired Bach for many years so imagine my delight when I arrived in Leipzig in July 1981.
One of my first outings was to the Thomakirche, Bach's church, a former Augustinian priory -
Luther himself was an Augustinian.
I am an Irish Catholic but from my teens in Dublin in the 1950s I have admired all Christian
denominations. Bach's works were dismissed by a 'The Catholic Herald' reviewer in late 2008 as being 'full of
Lutheran pietism'.
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