Christmas
Break Forth, O Beauteous Heavenly Light
- Words:
- Johann Rist
- Music:
- Johann Sebastian Bach
Sheet music
- 1Break forth, O beauteous heav’nly light,(Ye shepherds, shrink not with affright,)And usher in the morning;(But hear the angel’s warning.)This Child, now weak in infancy,Our confidence and joy shall be,The pow’r of Satan breaking,Our peace eternal making. Amen.
In the hymnals
- Written in 1641, the words are in 72 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
Words, music and setting are in the public domain. The sheet music and words are from PDHymns.com. The piano is the FluidR3 General MIDI sound font (MIT licence). How many hymnals print a hymn, and when it was written, is from Hymnary.org.