Lift Up Your Heads, Ye Mighty Gates

Text by Georg Weissel

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About this hymn

Date: 1642
Tune: Milwaukee
Composer: August Lemke
Key: A
Meter: 8 8 8 8 8 8 6 6

Historical background

This edition is preserved in the Open Hymnal Project at source revision d35811b2d5c9. Contributor and publication details below are reproduced from the score metadata rather than inferred.

Theology & Scripture

The source index associates this text with Anticipation, Art and Music [1,32, Christian Home/Family, Christmas/Advent, Consecration, Crown.

Ps 24:7 · 118:19-20 · Mt 3:1-3 · Is 26:2 · 60:4-5 · Rev 22:20

Musical background

Milwaukee is presented in the source key of A, with four documented parts.

Sources & rights

Verified for United States on 2026-10-13. Public domain — source score marking

Words: Georg Weissel, 1642. Translated by Catherine Winkworth, 1855. Music: 'Milwaukee' or 'Macht hoch die Tür (Lemke)' August Lemke, 1849. Setting: "Concordia Kinderchöre", 1908. copyright: public domain. This score is a part of the Open Hymnal Project, 2013 Revision.