Johann Sebastian Bach

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BWV 741
Title Ah God, from heaven look on us
Composed 1705, Arnstadt
Key D-Minor
Scoring

Organ
Movements Chorale
Category Chorales
Event Lent
Author of text Unknown
Text

Ah God, from heaven look on us
And grant us yet thy mercy!
How few are found thy saints to be,
Forsaken are we wretches;
Thy word is not upheld as true,
And faith is also now quite dead
Among all mankind's children.
Manuscript Music library, Leipzig; Yale University, New Haven; Estate Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy; Bodleian library, Oxford

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