Lang grew up in modest, rural conditions, was music student of Christian Fink, and became organist in Stuttgart, Württemberg. This is his version of "Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen" ("Lo, how a rose e'er blooming"), a traditional Advent hymn. The melody originally appeared in the Speyer Hymnal (printed in Cologne in 1599), and the harmonization familiar to us today was written by German composer Michael Praetorius in 1609. Played on our Johannus Live III organ using the Sauer-Leipzig sample.

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