@vruno2x4, so good Bach didn't hear something like that. He'd just have quit composing

bach es dios hablando

Fantastic interpretation

@freeerteee these words san we, in the high school: Jesu, priceless treasure Source of purest pleasure Truest friend to me Ah! How lon I've panted And my heart hath fainted Thirstin, Lo'ward, for thee Thine I am, o priceless lamb I will suffer nought to hide thee Nought I ask, beside thee. SPURN THE MUSE!!

Beautiful music.

Extremely moving and expressive! Shows once more the unparalleled genius of Bach! Thanks for sharing.

Jesus, my joy, The food of my heart, Jesus my Honor, Ah, how long, How long will my heart be anxious And longing for Thee! Lamb of God, my bridegroom, Outside of Thee, Could nothing on earth be dear for me

this song will be sung in arts high school i cant wait lol

Simply amazing. This has been the best piece of music which I have ever sung. "Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent."

We sing this at school -.-' it's so difficult!

Thanks for posting this masterpiece and the score, too. Can you imagine such a work being composed for the funeral of the wife of a postmaster of any modern city of any size? Incredible that they did that then. And wonderful that we have this incredible work by Bach that has more than outlived its original purpose!

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Yes

Is this completely A capella? I can't tell.

coole Idee, das mit dem Lauftext, thank you.

Obviously his Leipzig church music would not become well-known outside Leipzig until the late 18th c., when public concerts began playing works of dead composers and early music societies, like the Handel Society in the US, the London Academy of Ancient Music, and the Berlin Singakademie started up.

Can you name any Bach fugues and canons that "were put to fire in order to stay warm for the winter"? Not long after Bach's death, collectors were already trying to buy the music he'd passed on to his sons. Even before his death, many of his harpsichord works, even those he'd never had printed, were known in England, France, Austria and Italy via hand copies. Much of his music survives, not in authographs, but in hand copies made by his students and others.

Don't confuse key with chord. If a piece in e minor ends on an E major CHORD, the end KEY is STILL e minor. Not all the movements of this motet begin in a minor key. Movements 1, 3, 7 & 11 are all harmonizations of different verses of the hymn tune Jesu, meine Freude, which is in dorian mode, not minor mode. 5 and 9 are variations of different verses on that hymn tune. 8 starts in G, ends on E chord. At the center of the motet is a 5-voice fugue starting in G major, ending in A minor.

This has been my most favorite piece to sing ever...simply otherworldly.

Jesus is great :)

Love it! Can listen to it over and over agin. Reminds me of all the practicing we did on it.

It's a quite common practice...Bach was a genius, but not because of that...;)

good old picardy third

I simply love how each movement starts in a minor key but it magically ends in a major key! Bach was a genius!

Its shocking isn't? Think of all the fugues, and canons he wrote that were put to fire in order to stay warm for the winter? I shudder at the thought. Most people don't realize that music back then wasn't made to last, it was composed maybe to be played at one event and then it'd never be heard again. Fortunately much of Bach's work does survive. We are especially lucky to have his chorales.