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Monday, December 22, 2014

BEGINNING VIOLIN HOLIDAY MUSIC: GOOD KING WENCESLAS

Words: John M. Neale (1818-1866); 
first ap­peared in Car­ols for
Christ­mas-Tide, 1853, by Neale
and Thom­as Hel­more. Neale
may have writ­ten the hymn
some time ear­li­er: he re­lat­ed
the sto­ry on which it is based
in Deeds of Faith (1849). The
his­tor­ic­al Wen­ces­las was
Duke of Bo­hem­ia.
Saint Wenceslaus I Duke of Bohemia
Good King Wenceslas