Komm, Gott Schöpfer, Heiliger Geist

"Komm, Gott Schöpfer, Heiliger Geist" ("Come, God Creator, Holy Ghost") is a Lutheran hymn for Pentecost, with words written by Martin Luther based on the Latin "Veni Creator Spiritus".

Luther wrote the hymn for Pentecost as a paraphrase of the Latin Veni Creator Spiritus in his effort to establish German equivalents to the Latin parts of the liturgy.

[2] The hymn in seven stanzas was first published in 1524, both in the Erfurt Enchiridion and in a setting by Johann Walter in Eyn geystlich Gesangk Buchleyn.

Johann Sebastian Bach used the hymn tune Zahn 295 several times, for example setting it as the four-part chorale BWV 370.

[8] The hymn has been translated and has appeared to the hymn tune "Komm, Gott Schöpfer" in twelve hymnals,[3][9] for example "Come, O Creator Spirit Blest", translated by Edward Caswall.

Beginning of BWV 631