"Komm, Schöpfer Geist, kehr bei uns ein" (Come, Creator Spirit, visit us) is a Christian hymn in German for Pentecost. The text is a paraphrase of the Latin hymn Veni Creator Spiritus by Heinrich Bone. The melody is an adaptation of the Latin hymn's plainchant. It was first published in 1845. In the Catholic hymnal Gotteslob, it is GL 351.
Komm, Schöpfer Geist, kehr bei uns ein is one of many paraphrases of the 9th-century Veni Creator Spiritus which is attributed to Rabanus Maurus.[1] The first version in German was Martin Luther's "Komm, Gott, Schöpfer, Heiliger Geist, published in 1524.[2] Bone's version, in six stanzas as the model, was first published in 1845.[3] It was part of his 1847 hymnal Cantate!. The hymn was included in the first edition of the common German Catholic hymnal Gotteslob in 1975 as GL 245, and is stanza, GL 351 in its 2013 edition, in the section Pentecost / Holy Spirit.[3]
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Veni, creator Spiritus, |
Komm, Schöpfer Geist, kehr bei uns ein, |
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