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No. 32 1 .: Jesu, thou who knewest death ( Jesu, der du warest todt ) - 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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Jesu, thou who knewest death (Jesu, der du warest todt)

For Melchior Vulpius’ melody, “Jesu Kreuz, Leiden und Pein,” see No. 11 supra.

The words of the Choral are the thirty-fourth stanza of Paul Stockmann’s Passiontide Hymn, “Jesu Leiden, Pein und Tod” (see No. 11):

  • Jesu, der du warest todt,
  • Lebest nun ohn’ Ende,
  • In der letzten Todesnoth
  • Nirgend mich hinwende2
  • Als zu dir, der mich versuhnt.
  • O mein trauter Herre!
  • Gieb mir nur, was du verdient,
  • Mehr ich nicht begehre
  • B.G. xii. (1) 108.

Form. The Choral (S.A.T.B.) is sung in eight detached phrases accompanying the Bass Aria (Organ and Continuo).