Johann Sebastian Bach

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BWV 666
Title Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour
Composed 1708, Weimar
Key E-Minor
Scoring

Organ

Movements Chorale
Category Chorales Leipzig manuscript
Event Easter
Author of text Martin Luther, 1524
Text

Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour
Who freed us from the wrath of God;
By His bitter grief and death
Saved us from the pains of Hell.
Thou shalt hold Thy faith unshaken
That Communion thus be taken
By the sick with sinful heart,
Full of woe and torn apart.

Manuscript Music library, Leipzig ; Protestant Publishing Institute, Berlin; Estate C. Ph. E. Bach

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