Johann Sebastian Bach

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BWV 957
Title Do with me, God, according to your goodness (Fugue in G-Major)
Composed Unknown
Scoring

Organ

Movements Fugue
Category Fugue
Event -
Author of text Unknown
Text

Do with me, God, according to your goodness;
help me in my suffering.
What I ask you is this: do not fail me
when my soul departs;
take it, Lord, into your hands.
Everything is good if the end is good.

Manuscript Yale University, New Haven; Johann Sebastian Bach Institute, Goettingen

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