Composer: Friederich Filitz

From HymnsWithoutWords

Dr Friederich Filitz (1804 - 1876) was a German composer, music critic and historian. He was born in Arnstadt, Thuringia and worked both in Berlin and München. He studied philosophy and received his doctor’s degree in this science. He edited Vierstimmiges Choralbuch zu Kirchen - und Hausgebrauch, and also four-part settings for Bunsen’s allgemeine Gesang - und Gebetbuch. He collaborated with Ludwig Erk in editing many chorals of the most famous masters of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.He died in Bonn, 1876. [Dahle, Library of Christian Hymns]