Johann Sebastian Bach

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BWV 761
Title Our Father in the heaven Who art
Composed Unknown
Key D-Minor
Scoring

Organ
Movements Chorale
Category Chorales
Event Lent
Author of text Martin Luther, 1538
Text

Our Father in the heaven Who art,
Who tellest all of us, in heart
Brothers to be, and on Thee call
And wilt have prayer from one and all,
Grant that the mouth not only pray,
From deepest heart O help its way.
Manuscript Music library, Leipzig; Yale University, New Haven; Estate Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy; Bodleian library, Oxford

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