Johann Sebastian Bach

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BWV 726
Title Lord Jesus Christ, be present now!
Composed 1708, Weimar
Key G-Major
Scoring

Organ
Movements Chorale
Category Chorales
Event Pentecost
Author of text Wilhelm II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Gotha, 1651
Text

Lord Jesus Christ, be present now!
And let Thy Holy Spirit bow
All hearts in love and fear today,
To hear the truth and keep Thy way.
Manuscript Music library, Leipzig; Yale University, New Haven; Johann Sebastian Bach Institute, Goettingen; Bach Archive, Leipzig; Hessisch Country and Highschool library, Darmstadt, Estate Aloys Fuchs; Estate Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy; Bodleian library, Oxford; Universitäty library, Warzawa; Royal library, Kopenhavn; Royal library, Brussels; Highschool for Music, Berlin

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