Teschner, the composer of the melody, wrote two
settings for five parts, published in 1615 in Ein
andächtiges Gebet (a devotional prayer) upon which
Johann Sebastian Bach composed two chorale preludes
(BWV 735 and 736). He used the first stanza of the hymn
as movement 3 in his cantata Christus, der ist mein
Leben, BWV 95, and the third stanza, "In meines Herzens
Grunde" (Within my heart's foundation), in his St. John
Passion. This setting was arranged for a Palm Sunday
liturgy at First Lutheran...(+)
Teschner, the composer of the melody, wrote two
settings for five parts, published in 1615 in Ein
andächtiges Gebet (a devotional prayer) upon which
Johann Sebastian Bach composed two chorale preludes
(BWV 735 and 736). He used the first stanza of the hymn
as movement 3 in his cantata Christus, der ist mein
Leben, BWV 95, and the third stanza, "In meines Herzens
Grunde" (Within my heart's foundation), in his St. John
Passion. This setting was arranged for a Palm Sunday
liturgy at First Lutheran Church, Gladstone, Michigan.
Thanks to Len Anderson for his magnificent rendition--
for sax choir!
SHEET MUSIC