"Gelobt sei Gott im höchsten Thron" (literally: Praised be God on highest throne) is a hymn for Easter in 20 stanzas in German by Michael Weiße, widely known with a later melody by Melchior Vulpius.
With this melody, the hymn became widely known in the 19th century by publication in the hymnals of Johann Gottlieb Tucher and Philipp Wackernagel.
In 1925, an arrangement of the tune by the English composer Henry George Ley was published in the hymnal Songs of Praise as a setting for the hymn "The Strife is O'er, the Battle Done" by Francis Pott.
[6][7] The melody is also part of Ernst Pepping's Großes Orgelbuch (Great Organ Book), which contains preludes and chorale fantasias, in volume 3 for Easter, Ascension and Pentecost.
[9] Petr Eben's Evangelische Choräle / aus dem Kanzional der Böhmischen Brüder: Choralbearbeitungen und Improvisationsmodelle (Ten Preludes on Chorales of the Bohemian Brethren), composed between 1971 and 1973 and published in 2002 by Universal Edition, contain Vulpius's original melody.