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No. 4 1 .: O wondrous love ( O grosse Lieb ’) 2 - 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. 41 .

O wondrous love (O grosse Lieb’)2

For Johann Cruger’s melody, “Herzliebster Jesu, was hast du verbrochen,” see “St Matthew Passion,” No. 3.

The words of the Choral are the seventh stanza of Johann Heermann’s Passiontide Hymn, “Herzliebster Jesu, was hast du verbrochen” (see “St Matthew Passion,” No. 3). Two more stanzas of the Hymn are sung in No. 15 infra:

  • O grosse Lieb’, O Lieb’ ohn’ alle Maasse,
  • Die dich gebracht auf diese Marter-Strasse!
  • Ich lebte mit der Welt in Lust und Freuden,
  • Und du musst leiden!
  • B.G. xii. (1) 17.

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