Johann Sebastian Bach

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BWV 757
Title O Lord God, your holy Word
Composed Unknown
Key G-Major
Scoring

Organ

Movements Chorale
Category Chorales
Event -
Author of text Unknown
Text

O Lord God, your holy Word
had long remained obscure,
until, through your mercy what was said to us
by your servant Paul
and other Apostles
from your divine inspiration,
for which I thank you
diligently, that we
experience this hour.

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

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