sentences:  During Christmas in Nazi Germany, "" was rewritten as "" ("A light has arisen for us/on a dark winter night"), with a secularised text evoking sunlight falling on the Fatherland and extolling the virtues of motherhood.The tune most familiar today originally appeared in the "Speyer Hymnal" (printed in Cologne in 1599), and the familiar harmonization was written by German composer Michael Praetorius in 1609.A canon version for four voices also exists, based on Praetorius's harmony and sometimes attributed to his contemporary, Melchior Vulpius.