Edited by Alfred Noe and Hans-Gert Roloff, this volume presents the early poetry of Johann Rist, along with Paul Gerhardt, the most important 17 ^th century German composers of Protestant Church songs. It fills a longstanding gap in the earlier seven-volume edition of Rist's Complete Works .

Alfred Noe, Universität Wien; Hans-Gert Roloff, leitete die Forschungsstelle für Mittlere deutsche Literatur der FU Berlin