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BWV 713
Title Jesus, my true pleasure
Composed 1708, Weimar
Key E-Minor
Scoring

Organ

Movements Chorale
Category Chorales from Kirnberger collection
Event Christmas
Author of text Johann Franck
Text

Jesus, my true pleasure,
Of my heart the pasture,
Jesus, my delight,
Ah how long, how long now
Is my heart made anxious
As it longs for thee!
God's true lamb, my bridegroom thou,
More than thee to me on earth now
Shall nought be more treasured.

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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