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No. 55.: O wondrous love, that suffers this correction! ( Wie wunderbarlich ist doch diese Strafe! ) - Johann Sebastian Bach, Bach’s Chorals, vol. 1 The Hymns and Hymn Melodies of the “Passions” and Oratorios [1915]

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Bach’s Chorals. Part I: The Hymns and Hymn Melodies of the “Passions” and Oratorios, by Charles Sanford Terry (Cambridge University Press, 1915-1921). 3 vols. Vol. 1.

Part of: Bach’s Chorals, 3 vols.

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No. 55.

O wondrous love, that suffers this correction! (Wie wunderbarlich ist doch diese Strafe!)

For Johann Crüger’s melody, “Herzliebster Jesu,” see No. 3 supra.

The words of the Choral are the fourth stanza of Johann Heermann’s Passiontide Hymn, “Herzliebster Jesu” (see No. 3):

  • Wie wunderbarlich ist doch diese Strafe!
  • Der gute Hirte leidet fur die Schaafe;
  • Die Schuld bezahlt der Herre, der Gerechte,
  • Fur seine Knechte!
  • B.G. iv. 192.

Form. Simple (2 Fl., 2 Ob., Strings, Organ, and Continuo)