Johann Sebastian Bach

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BWV 727
Title My heart is filled with longing
Composed 1708, Weimar
Key B-flat Minor
Scoring

Organ

Movements Chorale
Category Chorales
Event -
Author of text Christoph Knoll, 1605
Text

My heart is filled with longing
To pass away in peace;
For woes are round me thronging
And trials will not cease.
Oh fain would I be hasting,
From thee, dark world of gloom,
To gladness everlasting.
O Jesus! quickly come.

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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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