Johann Sebastian Bach

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BWV 710
Title Come, Christian folk
Composed 1708, Weimar
Key G-Major
Scoring

Organ
Movements Chorale
Category Chorales from Kirnberger collection
Event Christmas
Author of text Caspar Füger, Senior, Dresden
Text

Come, Christian folk, Come, Christian folk,
Your joy be spoke,
For Christ is born and men salvation bringeth.
Who to Him cleaves,
In faith believes,
Shall never die,
But life in heaven receiveth.
Manuscript Music library, Leipzig; Yale University, New Haven; Johann Sebastian Bach Institute, Goettingen; Bach Archive, Leipzig, Central library, Zurich; Estate Johann Philipp Kirnberger

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