Johann Sebastian Bach

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BWV 714
Title Alas, my God
Composed 1708, Weimar
Key B-Major
Scoring

Organ

Movements Chorale
Category Chorales
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 griefs 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; Hessisch Country and Highschool library, Darmstadt, Estate Aloys Fuchs; Estate Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy; Bodleian library, Oxford; Universitäty library, Warzawa; Royal library, Kopenhavn; Royal library, Brussels; Highschool for Music, Berlin

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