Johann Sebastian Bach

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BWV 304
Title One thing's needful; Lord this treasure
Composed Unknown
Scoring

Choir for 4 voices

Movements Chorale: One thing's needful; Lord this treasure
Category Chorale
Event -
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Text
Chorale:
Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass


One thing's needful; Lord this treasure
Teach me highly to regard;
All else, though it first give pleasure,
Is a yoke that presses hard.
Beneath it the heart is still fretting and striving,
No true, lasting happiness ever deriving.
The gain of this one thing all loss can requite
And teach me in all things to find true delight.

Manuscript Music library, Leipzig; Highschool for Music, Berlin

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