Georg Weissel
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Georg Weissel was a German Lutheran minister and hymn writer.
The Altrossgarten Church in Königsberg, which Weissel inaugurated in 1623 and where he served as minister
"Such, wer da will, ein ander Ziel" is a Lutheran hymn in five stanzas with a text written by Georg Weissel in 1623 to a melody that Johann Stobäus had created in 1613.
Georg Weissel
…hymnals including the Catholic Gotteslob (GL 218). The current Protestant hymnal has two more of his hymns, "O Tod, wo ist dein Stachel" (EG 113) and "Such, wer da will, ein ander Ziel" (EG 346), which he wrote on the occasion of his ordination in Königsberg. Catherine Winkworth translated the Advent hymn in 1853 as "Lift up your…
A motet on the 1613 tune by Johann Stobäus, 1642, reprinted in 1858