Johann Sebastian Bach

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BWV 734a
Title Rejoice, dear Christians
Composed 1708, Weimar
Key G-Major
Scoring

Organ

Movements Chorale
Category Chorales
Event Thanksgiving
Author of text Martin Luther, 1524
Text

Rejoice, dear Christians, and let us joyfully
leap and sing together with pleasure and love,
comforted by what God has done for us
and his sweet miracle.
He has gained us at a very high price.

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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