Johann Sebastian Bach

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BWV 692a
Title Alas, my God, my sins are great
Composed Unknown
Key C-Major
Scoring

Organ

Movements Chorale
Category Chorales from Kirnberger collection
Event Lent
Author of text Johann Major, 1613
Text

Alas, my God, my sins are great,
My conscience doth upbraid me;
And now I find that at my strait
No man hath power to aid me.

And fled I hence in my despair
In some lone spot to hide me,
My friefs would still be with me there
And peace still be denied me.

Manuscript Music library, Leipzig; Yale University, New Haven; Johann Sebastian Bach Institute, Goettingen; Bach Archive, Leipzig, Central library, Zurich; Estate Johann Philipp Kirnberger

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