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People celebrated in the
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465:Wake, Awake, for Night is Flying
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662:Lutheran Hymnal with Supplement
461:Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme
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1037:Den svenska psalmboken (1819)
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549:Studies In Lutheran Chorales
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508:Crump, William D. (2013)
494:Glover, Raymond F. (1990)
478:King and Queen of Chorales
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364:Philip Nicolai (1556-1608)
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1613:N. Samuel of Tranquebar
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1508:Gottfried Wilhelm Sacer
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1273:Andreas Hammerschmidt
1238:Frans Michael Franzén
1113:Johann Sebastian Bach
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350:(justus.anglican.org)
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1458:HallgrĂmur PĂ©tursson
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1128:Sigmund von Birken
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