Freylinghausen stu­died the­ol­o­gy at the Uni­ver­si­ties of Jena (1689), and Halle (1692). In 1695 he start­ed work at the or­phan­age and Pä­da­go­gi­um (edu­ca­tion­al in­sti­tute) of Halle an der Saale. He mar­ried the di­rect­or’s daugh­ter and him­self be­came di­rect­or in 1727. He was al­so pas­tor at St. Ul­rich Church in Halle.

Freyling­hausen wrote and com­posed 44 hymns. In 1697, he pub­lished the first edi­tion of his Geist­reiches Ge­sang­buch (Spirit­ual Hymn­al). The 1704 edi­tion in­clud­ed 683 hymns (83 of them by Paul Gerhardt) with 174 hymn tunes. This was the most im­port­ant hymn col­lect­ion of the Pi­e­tis­tic per­i­od of Lu­ther­an hym­no­dy. In the fol­low­ing de­cades, more hymns were add­ed, and by 1741 it had 1,581 hymns with 597 tunes.

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Music

1. Das Ist Meine Freude
2. Dir, Dir, Jehovah
3. Gott Sei Dank durch Alle Welt
4. Irene
5. Jesus Ist das Schönste Licht
6. Lobe Den Herren, O Meine Seele
7. Macht Hoch die Tür
8. Sebastian