Johann Sebastian Bach

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BWV 622
Title O man, bewail thy grievous fall
Composed 1713, Weimar
Key E-flat-Major
Scoring

Organ

Movements Chorale
Category Orgelbuechlein
Event Lent
Author of text Sebald Heyden, 1530
Text

O man, bewail thy grievous fall,
For which Christ left His Father's hall
And came to earth from heaven.
He of a virgin maiden pure
Was born, of man the Savior sure,
And came earth's ills to leaven.
The dead He raised again to life,
The sick He loosed from pain and strife,
Until the time appointed
That He for us should shed His blood
And take on Him our sin's dark load,
Stretched on the Cross accursed.

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Manuscript Estate Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy; Bodleian library, Oxford; Music library, Leipzig; Johann Sebastian Bach Institute, Goettingen; Conservatory, Brussels; Yale University, New Haven; University library, Warzawa

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