O Licht der wunderbaren Nacht
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| "O Licht der wunderbaren Nacht" | |
|---|---|
| Christian Easter hymn | |
| Occasion | Easter |
| Written | 1963 |
| Text | by Georg Thurmair |
| Language | German |
| Melody | from Mainz |
| Composed | c. 1390 |
| Published | 1975 |
"O Licht der wunderbaren Nacht" (O light of the wonderful night) is a Christian Easter hymn by Georg Thurmair written in 1963. It was part of the German Catholic hymnal Gotteslob of 1975 as GL 208, with a melody from the 14th century. It is part of the second edition of the Gotteslob as GL 334, also of regional sections of the Protestant hymnal Evangelisches Gesangbuch.
Thurmair, a publisher of the 1938 ecumenical hymnal Kirchenlied, wrote the text "O Licht der wunderbaren Nacht" in 1963.[1] It became part of the first common Catholic hymnal Gotteslob of 1975 as GL 208, combined with a melody from Mainz dated to the 1390s.[1][2] In the second edition of the Gotteslob in 2013, it was included as GL 334 in the Easter section.[1][2] The hymn is suitable for Easter Vigil and was recommended by Kirche+Leben, the newspaper of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Münster, for celebrating the holiday at home in 2020, when services were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[3]
"O Licht der wunderbaren Nacht" was included in the regional sections for Thuringia and Bavaria of the Protestant hymnal Evangelisches Gesangbuch, as EG 559.[4]
