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Joachim Neander
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Browse piano sheets by Joachim Neander on Zen Virtual Piano. Joachim Neander was born in Bremen, the son of a Latin teacher and the grandson of a musician. After his father's death he could not afford to study at a famous university; theology in Bremen, from 1666 to 1670, took its place. Under the guidance of Under-Eyck, a pastor, the young student embraced Christ as his Saviour at a turning point in his spiritual life; the two stayed lifelong friends. A musical grandfather and a Latin-teaching father hint at a home where words and sound mattered. Studying close to home after his father's death suggests that his path was shaped by circumstance. Heidelberg gave him work as a private tutor in 1671, and by 1674 he was teaching at a Latin school in Düsseldorf, a step before the pastorate. In the winter of 1673/74 he met the Pietist theologian Philipp Jakob Spener in Frankfurt and attended his collegia pietatis, or hours of edification. Tutoring in Heidelberg and a Latin school post in Düsseldorf hint at teaching as a recurring strand of his working life. Düsseldorf's church council looked into his conduct in 1676 and removed him from office, but fourteen days after the dismissal he promised in writing to follow the rules of church and school, and got his post back. According to legend, he spent most of his suspension in a cave in the Neanderthal near Mettmann, where some hymns were supposedly written. What is well established is that his great love of nature often drew him to that valley, where a cavern bears the name Neander's Cave. A written promise and a restored post hint at a dispute settled on conditions. A cave named after him suggests how closely local memory ties his name to the landscape. In 1679 his friend Under-Eyck invited him to Bremen to assist at St. Martin's church; the salary was only 40 thalers a year plus a free house, and he accepted joyfully. He wrote about 60 hymns and provided tunes for many of them. A saying of his, given when asked how he felt, is that the Lord had settled his account. His influence on the later hymnody of his church earned him the title the Gerhardt of the Reformed Church. He died at thirty. Accepting a very small salary with joy hints at how much the post meant to him. A short life with so large a body of hymns suggests an intense burst of work.
Browse piano sheets by Joachim Neander on Zen Virtual Piano.
Joachim Neander was born in Bremen, the son of a Latin teacher and the grandson of a musician. After his father's death he could not afford to study at a famous university; theology in Bremen, from 1666 to 1670, took its place. Under the guidance of Under-Eyck, a pastor, the young student embraced Christ as his Saviour at a turning point in his spiritual life; the two stayed lifelong friends. A musical grandfather and a Latin-teaching father hint at a home where words and sound mattered. Studying close to home after his father's death suggests that his path was shaped by circumstance.
Heidelberg gave him work as a private tutor in 1671, and by 1674 he was teaching at a Latin school in Düsseldorf, a step before the pastorate. In the winter of 1673/74 he met the Pietist theologian Philipp Jakob Spener in Frankfurt and attended his collegia pietatis, or hours of edification. Tutoring in Heidelberg and a Latin school post in Düsseldorf hint at teaching as a recurring strand of his working life.
Düsseldorf's church council looked into his conduct in 1676 and removed him from office, but fourteen days after the dismissal he promised in writing to follow the rules of church and school, and got his post back. According to legend, he spent most of his suspension in a cave in the Neanderthal near Mettmann, where some hymns were supposedly written. What is well established is that his great love of nature often drew him to that valley, where a cavern bears the name Neander's Cave. A written promise and a restored post hint at a dispute settled on conditions. A cave named after him suggests how closely local memory ties his name to the landscape.
In 1679 his friend Under-Eyck invited him to Bremen to assist at St. Martin's church; the salary was only 40 thalers a year plus a free house, and he accepted joyfully. He wrote about 60 hymns and provided tunes for many of them. A saying of his, given when asked how he felt, is that the Lord had settled his account. His influence on the later hymnody of his church earned him the title the Gerhardt of the Reformed Church. He died at thirty. Accepting a very small salary with joy hints at how much the post meant to him. A short life with so large a body of hymns suggests an intense burst of work.
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Joachim Neander was a Reformed teacher and hymn writer from Bremen who wrote about 60 hymns.
He taught at a Latin school in Düsseldorf from 1674, after working as a private tutor in Heidelberg.
A cavern in the Neanderthal near Mettmann bears the name Neander's Cave, and a legend places him in a cave there during his suspension.
His influence on later hymnody of his church earned him the title the Gerhardt of the Reformed Church.