Johann Sebastian Bach

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BWV 421
Title Why art thou troubled, O my heart?
Composed Unknown
Scoring

Choir for 4 voices

Movements Chorale: Why art thou troubled, O my heart?
Category Chorale
Event -
Author of text Barth. Monœtius 1565
Text
Chorale:
Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass


Why art thou troubled, O my heart?
Art anxious and bowed down with grief
For merely temporal worth?
Put trust in this thy Lord and God,
Who ev'rything created hath.

Manuscript Music library, Leipzig; Highschool for Music, Berlin

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