Johann Sebastian Bach

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BWV 754
Title Blessed Jesu, at Thy word
Composed Unknown
Key B-flat-Minor
Scoring

Organ
Movements Chorale
Category Chorales
Event -
Author of text Tobias Clausnitzer 1663
Text

Blessed Jesu, at Thy word
We are gathered all to hear Thee;
Let our hearts and souls be stirred
Now to seek and love and fear Thee;
By Thy teachings sweet and holy
Drawn from earth to love Thee solely.
Manuscript Music library, Leipzig; Yale University, New Haven; Estate Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy; Bodleian library, Oxford

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