Previous posts for January 28th are here: John Tavener (2020), Artur [Arthur] Rubinstein; Johann Ernst Bach (2021), and Giovanni Battista Velluti; Ferdinand Hérold (2022)
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Gottfried Vopelius (28 January 1645 – 3 February 1715), was a German Lutheran academic, hymn-writer, and music editor.
Protestant
"[New Leipzig Hymnal]: 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,." preface to Vopelius's Neu Leipziger Gesangbuch (New Leipzig Hymnal) as found in Wikipedia
Gottfried Vopelius once compiled
A thick and respectable tome
Of sacred music clearly styled
To counter the doctrines of Rome.
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