
Johann Sebastian Bach
| BWV | 645 | 
| Title | Wake, awake, for night is flying | 
| Composed | 1747, Leipzig | 
| Scoring | Organ  | 
    
| Key | E-flat-Major | 
| Movements | Chorale | 
| Category | Schuebler Chorales | 
| Event | First Sunday in Advent | 
| Author of text | Philipp Nicolai, 1599 | 
| Text | 
      Wake, 
          awake, for night is flying, Zion hears the watchmen singing,  | 
    
| YouTube | Video 1 | 
| Manuscript | Estate Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy; Bodleian library, Oxford; Music library, Leipzig; Yale University, New Haven |