Category: John Zundel (1815-1882)

John (Johannes) Zundel (1815-1882) was a German organist, composer and arranger who in 1847 emigrated to the USA. He was born in the village of Hochdorf an der Enz in the German Kingdom of Württemberg.

He attended the Royal Academy at Esslingen, Württemberg, from 1829 to 1831, then he began teaching at the local school in Birkach, Germany. In 1833 he was appointed teacher of music in Esslingen.

He is believed to have given the first ever organ concert in Russia where he lived for seven years from 1839, becoming organist at Saint Anne Lutheran Church in Saint Petersburg and bandmaster of the Imperial House Guards.

After emigrating to the USA in 1847 be became church organist first at the Unitarian Church of Brooklyn under Reverend Farnley in 1848, and then hired by Henry Ward Beecher in 1850 be became music director and organist for Brooklyn’s Plymouth Church where he remained for 28 years.

His publications include:

Zundel’s Melodeon Instructor, 1853
The Amateur Organist, 1854
Plymouth Collection of Hymns, 1855 (edited with Beecher)
Psalmody, 1855 (editor)
Modern Organ-School (Boston, Massachusetts: 1860)
Treatise on Harmony and Modulation, 1862
Christian Heart Songs, 1870
School Harmonist (with James E. Ryan) (New York: American Book Company, 1873)

All for Jesus, great Redeemer (Beecher) – Organ

Lyrics

All for Jesus, great Redeemer,
I surrender heart and soul;
All for Jesus, all for Jesus,
He’s restored me, made me whole.
All for Jesus, all for Jesus,
I am His throughout my days;
All for Jesus, all for Jesus,
I will live a life of praise.

All for Jesus, gracious Saviour,
Till I meet Him face to face;
All for Jesus, all for Jesus,
Stand restored by divine grace.
All for Jesus, all for Jesus,
Voice and hands to Him I raise;
All for Jesus, all for Jesus,
I will sing eternal praise!
Lyrics Copyright © 2011 : Colin Gordon-Farleigh, used with permission.

Recordings

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Details

Tune: Beecher
Verses: 4
Meter: 87 87 D
Usage: General
Composer: John Zundel (1815-1882)
Lyricist: Colin Gordon-Farleigh (b. 1943)
Music Copyright Public Domain.
Lyrics Copyright © 2011 : Colin Gordon-Farleigh
Performance ℗ 2019 Richard M S Irwin. Certain rights reserved.
IRSC: UKTU21900010
UPC: 5060707370078

Now with joyful exultation (Beecher) – Organ

Lyrics

Based on Psalm 95

Now with joyful exultation
Let us sing to God our praise;
To the rock of our salvation
Loud hosannas let us raise.
Thankful tribute gladly bringing,
Let us come before him now,
And, with psalms his praises singing,
Joyful in his presence bow.

For how great a God, and glorious,
Is the Lord to whom we sing;
Over idol gods victorious,
Great is he, our God and King.
In his hand are earth’s deep places,
Also his are all the hills;
His the sea whose bounds he traces,
His the land his bounty fills.

To the Lord such might revealing,
Let us come with rev’rence meet,
And, before our maker kneeling,
Let us worship at his feet.
He is our own God who leads us,
We the people of his care;
With a shepherd’s hand he feeds us
As his flock in pastures fair.

While he offers peace and pardon
Let us hear his voice today,
Lest, if we our hearts should harden,
We should perish in the way;
Lest to us, so unbelieving,
He in judgment shall declare:
“You, so long my Spirit grieving,
never in my rest can share.”

Recordings

Details

Tune: Beecher
Verses: 4
Meter: 87 87 D
Usage: General
Composer: John Zundel (1815-1882)
Lyricist: Psalter (1912)
Music and Lyrics Copyright Public Domain.
Performance ℗ 2019 Richard M S Irwin. Certain rights reserved.