Editing Lutheran chorale (section)

==Composers==
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{{see also|:de:Liste von Kirchenliederkomponisten}}
Composers of tunes for Lutheran hymns, or who adopted such tunes in their compositions:<ref>{{Citation |title=Luteri koraal |date=2024-08-23 |work=Vikipeedia |url=https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luteri_koraal |access-date=2024-11-30 |language=et}}</ref>
* Martin Luther (1483–1546)
* Johann Walter (1496–1570)
* [[Sebald Heyden]] (1499–1561)
* [[Nikolaus Herman]] ({{circa|1500}}–1561)
* [[Johannes Hermann]] (1515–1593)
* [[Nikolaus Selnecker]] (1530–1592)
* [[Cyriakus Schneegass]] (1546–1597)
* [[Joachim a Burck]] (1546–1610)
* [[Philipp Nicolai]] (1556–1608)
* [[Bartholomäus Gesius]] ({{circa|1562}}–1613)
* [[Michael Praetorius]] (1571–1621)
* [[Melchior Franck]] ({{circa|1579}}–1639)
* [[Melchior Teschner]] (1584–1635)
* [[Michael Altenburg]] (1584–1640)
* [[Heinrich Schütz]] (1585–1672)
* [[Johann Hermann Schein]] (1586–1630)
* [[Samuel Scheidt]] (1587–1654)
* [[Johann Schop]] ({{circa|1590}}–1667)
* [[Heinrich Scheidemann]] ({{circa|1595}}–1663)
* [[Johann Crüger]] (1598–1662)
* [[Andreas Hammerschmidt]] (1611/1612–1675)
* [[Dieterich Buxtehude]] ({{circa|1638}}–1707)
* [[Gottfried Vopelius]] (1645–1715)
* [[Johann Pachelbel]] (1653–1706)
* [[Johann Sebastian Bach]] (1685–1750) harmonised hundreds of chorales, typically used at the end of his cantatas and concluding scenes in his Passions. In his ''[[St Matthew Passion]]'', he set five stanzas of "[[O Sacred Head, Now Wounded|O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden]]" in four different ways. He also used hymns as the base for his cycle of [[Chorale cantata (Bach)|chorale cantatas]] and [[chorale prelude]]s. Bach concentrated on the chorales especially in the [[Chorale cantata (Bach)|Chorale cantata]]s of his second annual cycle, composed mostly in 1724/25.
* [[Felix Mendelssohn]] (1809–1847)
* [[Anton Bruckner]] (1824–1896).{{sfn|Harten|1996|page=145}}
* [[Johannes Brahms]] (1833–1897)
* [[Max Reger]] (1873–1916)
* [[Sigfrid Karg-Elert]] (1877–1933)
* [[Igor Stravinsky]] (1882–1971)
* [[Ernst Pepping]] (1901–1981)
* [[Hugo Distler]] (1908–1942)
* [[Sofia Gubaidulina]] (1931–2025)
* [[George C. Baker]] (b. 1951)