The Three Kings
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The Three Kings
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"The Three Kings", or "Three Kings From Persian Lands Afar", is a Christmas carol by the German composer Peter Cornelius. He set "Die Könige" for a vocal soloist, accompanied by Philip Nicolai's hymn "Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern", which he erroneously thought was an Epiphany hymn. In fact, it is an Advent hymn in which the morning star is an allegory for the arrival of Jesus, not the Star of Bethlehem. In Cornelius' original second setting, the accompaniment was played on a piano but the
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Song composed by Peter Cornelius
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three_Kings
date created:
2009-09-24T21:01:35Z
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2024-08-27T07:34:22Z
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