Jeremiah Dencke was born October 2, 1725, in Langenbielau, Silesia and died May 28, 1795, in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
[1] He emigrated to the American colonies in 1761 on the same ship with the father of Johann and Simon Peter.
The oldest existing American Moravian art music is a set of seven solos and three duets Dencke composed for the Single Brethren's observance in 1765.
It was performed in both Nazareth and Bethlehem, whose diaries use the term Vest Psalm when referring to it.
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