Meine Seele erhebt den Herren is Martin Luther's translation of the Magnificat canticle. It is traditionally sung to a German variant of the tonus peregrinus, a rather exceptional psalm tone in Gregor
Traditional D minor setting of Luther's German Magnificat, which is a particular German version of the ninth tone or tonus peregrinus
Gottfried Vopelius, was a German Lutheran academic and hymn-writer, mainly active in Leipzig. He was born in Herwigsdorf, now a district of Rosenbach, Oberlausitz, and died in Leipzig at the age of 70
Engravings from Vopelius' 1693 Leipziger Gesangbuch, which was largely based on his earlier Neu Leipziger Gesangbuch (1682).