The Hamburg choirmaster Thomas Selle prepared the scores for Rist's sixth collection of sacred songs. The Musical Festivities includes, in addition to prefaces, lyrics and 52 songs for the festival days of the church year, hymns for the days of the apostles and the Marian feast days, Luther Day, the thanksgiving day for the presentation of the Confessio Augustana, and the Thanksgiving for the German Translation of the Bible.

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Johann Anselm Steiger, Universität Hamburg