Johann Sebastian Bach

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BWV 280
Title Christ did our Lord to Jordan come
Composed Unknown
Scoring

Choir for 4 voices

Movements Chorale: Christ did our Lord to Jordan come
Category Chorale
Event -
Author of text Johann Walter Songbook 1524
Text
Chorale:
Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass


Christ did our Lord to Jordan come,
His Father's will fulfilling,
And from Saint John baptism took,
His work and charge to accomplish;
Here would he found for us a bath
To wash us clean from error,
To drown as well our bitter death
In his own blood and anguish;
A life restored it gave us.

Manuscript Music library, Leipzig; Highschool for Music, Berlin

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