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BWV 706
Title Blessed Jesu, at Thy word
Composed 1708, Weimar
Key A-Major
Scoring

Organ

Movements Chorale
Category Chorales from Kirnberger collection
Event -
Author of text Tobias Clausnitzer 1663
Text

Blessed Jesu, at Thy word
We are gathered all to hear Thee;
Let our hearts and souls be stirred
Now to seek and love and fear Thee;
By Thy teachings sweet and holy
Drawn from earth to love Thee solely.

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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