Behold! in lowly manger stall, BWV 248-3.8 (Johann Sebastian Bach)

Music files

• (Posted 2009-01-14)  CPDL #18429: 

Editor: Rod Mather (submitted 2009-01-14).   Score information: A4, 1 page, 30 kB   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score.

General Information

Title: '
Composer: Valentin Schumann
Arranger: Johann Sebastian Bach
Lyricist: Paul Gerhardt

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: Sacred, Chorale

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1855 in Bach-Gesellschaft Ausgabe, Band 5.2
    2nd published: 1892 in Bach-Gesellschaft Ausgabe, Band 39
    3rd published: 1898 in 389 Choralgesänge, no. 323
Opus: BWV 248.3 , mvt. 8

Description:

External websites: Based on Weinachts Oratorium (Christmas Oratorio), BWV 248^III, movement 17, Schaut hin! dort liegt im finstern Stall, stanza 8 of Paul Gerhardt's 1667 hymn, Schaut, schaut, was ist für Wunder dar.

Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Schaut, schaut, was ist für Wunder dar.