Johann Sebastian Bach

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BWV 699
Title Come, Redeemer of our race
Composed 1708, Weimar
Key G-Minor
Scoring

Organ

Movements Chorale
Category Chorales from Kirnberger collection
Event Fourth Sunday in Advent
Author of text Martin Luther, 1524
Text

Come, Redeemer of our race,
Virgin's Son, here make Thy throne,
Wonder at it, heaven and earth,
That the Lord chose such a birth.

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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