CHw2015, page 221t: Pleyel's Hymn

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Book: CHw2015; Index entry

About this tune

Wade Kotter on fasola-discussions, 2017: "[This] tune ... first appeared around 1790 in two English sources; one called it GERMAN HYMN and the other called it simply PLEYEL. It's an anonymous adaptation from the Andante movement of Ignace Pleyel's String Quartet in G Major from 1788. Pleyel had nothing to do with this theme from his string quartet being turned into a hymn tune. In the early to mid 19th century in both England and America, it was most commonly called GERMAN HYMN, but it was also known as PLEYEL, PLEYEL'S HYMN, and a few other names. In a few tune books where both tunes appeared, the one now on p. 523 in the 1991 ed. was named PLEYEL's HYMN (or sometimes PLEYEL'S HYMN FIRST) and the other tune (the one on p. 143) was named PLEYEL'S HYMN SECOND. However, the tune originally named GERMAN HYMN did not appear in the 1844 first edition of The Sacred Harp. It was added on p. 317t as PLEYEL'S HYMN without a qualifier in the 1850 2nd edition."

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