and start of the
section on New Year (pp. 89–103), with the
Lutheran hymn "
Das alte Jahr vergangen ist" Vopelius is primarily remembered for the (
New Leipzig Hymnal) which he published in 1682. The subtitle of the publication reads: Or, translated: The
Neu Leipziger Gesangbuch is, to a certain degree, a third edition of Johann Schein's , which originally had been published in 1627, with a new edition in 1645. Over 90 settings in the
Neu Leipziger Gesangbuch were copied or adapted from Schein. All other composers are represented with less than 10 settings in the hymnal. Of these, only
Johann Crüger and
Andreas Hammerschmidt are mentioned for more than three settings.
Reception The
Neu Leipziger Gesangbuch was one of the last important hymnals in the
Kantional format (i.e. printed with music, including part-songs): congregational singing was generally becoming monodic, with an instrumental accompaniment, for which hymnals with only texts became the new standard. For the closing chorales of his cantatas
BWV 27 and
BWV 43 he used the harmonisation as found in the hymnal. For other chorale settings, such as
BWV 281, he stayed close to the harmonisation published by Vopelius. ==Later editions of the
Leipziger Gesangbuch==