Gottfried Vopelius

Gottfried Vopelius (28 January 1645 – 3 February 1715), was a German Lutheran academic and hymn-writer, mainly active in Leipzig.

Von den schönsten und besten Liedern verfasset, In welchem Nicht allein des sel.

Tonis, Te Deum laudamus, Symbolum Nicaenum, &c. Choraliter, Und was sonsten bey dem ordentlichen Gottesdienste gesungen wird, zu finden Or, translated:...

Compiled from the most beautiful and best songs; In which not only songs of the blessed Dr. Luther, and other (songs) with the Word of God, and in accord with the unmodified Augsburg Confession, but also (songs) as introduced and customary in other untainted Evangelical places and regions, and Latin hymns and psalms, set for four, five and up to six voices, the settings of which are partly collected from Johann Herman Schein's Cantional, and from other good authors, and partly also composed by myself, also, in particular, the Passion according to the holy Evangelists Matthew and John, the Resurrection, the Mass, Prefaces, Responsories and Collects, for ordinary Sundays and high Feasts, the Magnificat in the eight tones, Te Deum laudamus, Symbolum Nicenum, etc.

[19] Later editions of the Leipziger Gesangbuch, in 1729, 1733 and 1752, further enlarged the number of hymns, to 852, 856 and 1015 respectively, and referred to Vopelius as the former editor of the hymnal.

Engravings from Vopelius' 1693 Leipziger Gesangbuch , which was largely based on his earlier Neu Leipziger Gesangbuch (1682). [ 1 ]
Pages 89–90 from the Neu Leipziger Gesangbuch : end of the section on Christmas (pp. 24–89) and start of the section on New Year (pp. 89–103) , with the Lutheran hymn " Das alte Jahr vergangen ist "