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BWV 724
Title Once He came in blessing
Composed 1708, Weimar
Key G-Major
Scoring

Organ

Movements Chorale
Category Chorales
Event Christmas
Author of text Johann Roh, 1544
Text

Once He came in blessing,
All our life redressing,
Came in likeness lowly,
Son of God Most Holy,
Bore the Cross to save us,
Hope and freedom gave us.

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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