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As one of the best-known and most popular Advent songs, "Macht hoch die Tür" was translated to several languages. Niels Johannes Holm translated it to Norwegian in 1829, revised by Magnus Brostrup Landstad in 1861, as "Gjør døren høy". [11] Catherine Winkworth wrote a translation to English in 1855, "Lift up your heads, ye mighty gates". [12]
Hammerschmidt set composed the motet, setting verses 7–10 from Psalm 24 in German, in the translation of the Bible by Martin Luther, in English beginning: "Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
Catherine Winkworth translated the Advent hymn in 1853 as "Lift up your heads, ye mighty gates". Johann Sebastian Bach used Weissel's hymn " Nun liebe Seel, nun ist es Zeit " in Part V of his Christmas Oratorio .
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Lift up your heads "Lift up your heads" is a line from Psalm 24 ( Psalms 24:7–10 ). Since the text has questions ("Who is the King of Glory?") and answers ("He is the King of Glory"), Handel divides the choir in the first section to a high, announcing group (sopranos I and II, alto) and a low, questioning group (alto, tenor, bass).
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William Mathias was born in Whitland, Carmarthenshire.A child prodigy, he started playing the piano at the age of three and began composing at the age of five. At Aberystwyth University Mathias was a member of the Elizabethan Madrigal Singers and wrote 'Gloria in Excelsis Deo' for them in 1954.