Johann Sebastian Bach

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BWV 654a
Title Deck thyself, my soul, with gladness
Composed 1708, Weimar
Key E-flat-Major
Scoring

Organ

Movements Chorale
Category Chorales Leipzig manuscript
Event Good Friday
Author of text Johann Franck, 1649
Text

Deck thyself, my soul, with gladness,
Leave the gloomy haunts of sadness
Come into the daylight's splendor,
There with joy Thy praises render

Unto him whose grace unbounded
Hath this wondrous banquet founded,
High o'er all the heab'ns He reigneth,
Yet to dwell with thee He deigneth.

Manuscript Music library, Leipzig ; Protestant Publishing Institute, Berlin; Estate C. Ph. E. Bach

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