[God, be merciful and gracious unto us]

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[God, be merciful and gracious unto us]

Harmonizer: J. S. Bach
Published in 2 hymnals

Harmonizer: J. S. 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:	[God, be merciful and gracious unto us]
Harmonizer:	J. S. Bach
Incipit:	57555 56544 3
Key:	e minor
Source:	Psalm tone, pre-16th c.
Copyright:	Public Domain

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God, be merciful and gracious

Gloria Patri

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Organ Solo

Chorale Preludes by Old Masters Volume III: For Organ
Composer/Editors Karl Straube; Delphin Strungk
Published By: Masters Music Publications, Inc. (1991) pp. 14
Twenty Chorale-Preludes, Four Inventions and a Fugue
Composer/Editor Randall Thompson
Published By: E. C. Schirmer Music Company (1970) pp. 15-16, 18
Seasonal Chorale Preludes for Manuals Only: Book II Easter Whitsun Trinity Festivals and General
Composer/Editors C. H. Trevor; Johann Gottfried Walther
Published By: Oxford University Press (1962) pp. 29
Chorale Preludes of Old Masters Volume III: For Organ
Composer/Editors Karl Straube; Delphin Strungk
Published By: C. F. Peters Corporation (1915) pp. 127