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Genevan Psalter

While the exact composer of "I Greet Thee, Who My Sure Redeemer Art" is unknown, the music's origin can be traced to the Genevan Psalter. This psalter grew out of the Strasbourg Psalter as additional psalms were rhymed and music composed for them. Most of the tunes in the original Strasbourg Psalter were composed by Matthias Greiter. Louis Bourgeois, a cantor at the church on Saint Pierre in Geneva composed many of the melodies that were added in the Genevan Psalter.

Bourgeois left when melodies had been written for eighty-one psalms. The origin of the others is still in question. Another forty Genevan Psalms are attributed to Maitre Pierre, but it is unclear exactly who he was, or even if he wrote the melodies himself or copied them from other sources.

In future weeks, we will discuss in greater detail this great resource of metrical psalmody.