Talk:Trauermusik

Vor deinen Thron tret ich hiermit
In the last movement, Hindemith quotes the hymn tune called in English Old 100th. Maybe, doing this, he thought of the words Vor deinen Thron tret ich hiermit ("With this, I come before Thy throne"). Is there a testimony of his own about that? In fact, this text has never been sung with this tune in Germany. Johann Sebastian Bach in his famous "swan song" (rather a re-arrangement) BWV 668 used the cantus firmus Wenn wir in höchsten Nöten sein, not the "Old 100th". And the choral harmonisation BWV 327 Vor deinen Thron tret ich hiermit was given that title by the editors of the Bach-Gesamtausgabe in the late 19th century, because the music had none (1). They did wrong. Was Hindemith uninformed about this? --Rabanus Flavus (talk) 08:30, 30 April 2020 (UTC)