Johann Sebastian Bach

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BWV 756
Title Now rest beneath night;s shadow
Composed Unknown
Key G-Major
Scoring

Organ

Movements Chorale
Category Chorales
Event -
Author of text Unknown
Text

Now rest beneath night;s shadow
The woodland, field, and meadow,
The world in slumber lies;
But Thou, my heart, awake thee,
To prayer and song betake thee;
Let praise to thy Creator rise.

Manuscript Music library, Leipzig; Yale University, New Haven; Estate Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy; Bodleian library, Oxford

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