BWV 719 O hail this brightest day of days

Johann Sebastian Bach

BWV	719
Title	O hail this brightest day of days
Composed	1708, Weimar
Key	G-Major
Scoring	Organ
Movements	Chorale
Category	Chorales
Event	Christmas
Author of text	Unknown
Text	O hail this brightest day of days, All good Christian people! For Christ is come upon our ways, Ring it from the steeple! Of maiden pure He is the Son; For ever shall thy praise be sung, Christ's fair Mother Mary! Ever was there news so great? God's own Son from heaven's high state Is born the Son of Mary!
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