HERR JESU CHRIST, DU HÖCHSTES GUT

Harmonizer: Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach was born at Eisenach into a musical family and in a town steeped in Reformation history, he received early musical training from his father and older brother, and elementary education in the classical school Luther had earlier attended. Throughout his life he made extraordinary efforts to learn from other musicians. At 15 he walked to Lüneburg to work as a chorister and study at the convent school of St. Michael. From there he walked 30 miles to Hamburg to hear Johann Reinken, and 60 miles to Celle to become familiar with French composition and performance traditions. Once he obtained a month's leave from his job to hear Buxtehude, but stayed nearly four months. He arranged compositions from Vivaldi and other Itali… Go to person page >

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Tune Information

Title:	HERR JESU CHRIST, DU HÖCHSTES GUT
Harmonizer:	Johann Sebastian Bach
Incipit:	11712 32112 25432
Key:	b minor
Source:	Dresde, 1593
Copyright:	Public Domain

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Texts

Herr Jesu Christ, du höchstes Gut, Du Brunnquell aller Gnaden

Herr Jesu, deine Angst und Pein Und dein betrübtes Leiden

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Arrangements

Arrangements

Organ Solo

Choraleworks Set II: Tne Chorale Preludes for Organ
Composer/Editor Gerald Near
Published By: Paraclete Press (1995) pp. 6
Chorale Preludes by Old Masters Volume 2: For Organ
Composer/Editors Karl Straube; Johann Pachelbel
Published By: Masters Music Publications, Inc. (1991) pp. 106
Chorale Preludes by Old Masters Volume II: For Organ
Composer/Editors Karl Straube; Johann Pachelbel
Published By: Masters Music Publications, Inc. (1991) pp. 48
Selected Chorale Preludes
Composer/Editors Dietrich Buxtehude; Robert Leech Bedell
Published By: The Boston Music Company (1953) pp. 2
The Church Organist's Golden Treasury Volume Two -- An Anthology of Choral Preludes: Carl F. Pfatteicher
Composer/Editors Archibald T. Davison; Johann Gottfried Walther
Published By: Oliver Ditson Company (1951) pp. 44, 47
The Church Organist's Golden Treasury Volume Two -- An Anthology of Choral Preludes: Carl F. Pfatteicher
Composer/Editors Archibald T. Davison; Johann Gottfried Walther
Published By: Oliver Ditson Company (1951) pp. 47
Chorale Preludes By Masters of the XVII and XVIII Centuries: Organ Series Vol. 1 - Anthology of Sacred Music
Composer/Editor Walter E. Buszin
Published By: Concordia Publishing House (1948) pp. 90
Chorale Preludes of Old Masters Volume II: For Organ
Composer/Editors Karl Straube; Johann Pachelbel
Published By: C. F. Peters Corporation (1915) pp. 106
Buxtehude Choral Transcriptions for the Organ Volume 4 Part 2: Kalmus Organ Series 3280
Composer/Editors Dietrich Buxtehude; Philipp Spitta; Max Seiffert
Published By: The H. W. Gray Company, Inc. pp. 104