Johann Sebastian Bach

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BWV 684a
Title Christ did our Lord to Jordan come
Composed 1739, Leipzig
Key C-Minor
Scoring

Oboe, Clarinet, Englishhorn, Bassoon, Violoncello

Movements Chorale
Category 3rd part of Clavierübung
Event Epiphany 
Author of text Unknown
Text

Christ did our Lord to Jordan come,
His Father's will fulfilling,
And from Saint John baptism took,
His work and charge to accomplish;
Here would he found for us a bath
To wash us clean from error,
To drown as well our bitter death
In his own blood and anguish;
A life restored it gave us.

Manuscript Music library, Leipzig; Bibliografico Musicale, Bologna; State and University library, Prague; British Museum, London; Yale University, New Haven; Johann Sebastian Bach Institute, Goettingen; Estate Aloys Fuchs; Bach Archive, Leipzig

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