- Alle Menschen müssen sterben, BWV 1117
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From the Neumeister Chorale Collection. In three sections: The first is played on the Hauptwerk (Bordun 16' + Principal 8' + Octava 4'); the second is
a virtuosic variation with rapid-fire thirty-second notes, also on the Hauptwerk but without the 16' and with the Mixtura III for clarity; the third
is a grand coda adding the Quinta 3', Octava 2' and Cymbeln II to the Hauptwerk and utilizing the Principal Bass 16' and Posaune 16'.
Instrument:
Gottfried Silbermann Organ, St. Georgenkirche - Rötha, Germany (1721) -
Samples by Brett Milan
- Chorale Text
German:
Alle Menschen müssen sterben,
alles Fleisch vergeht wie Heu,
was da lebet, muss verderben, soll es anders werden neu.
Dieser Leib, der muss verwessen,
wenn er ewig soll genesen
der so grossen Herrlichkeit,
die den Frommen ist bereit.
English:
Hark! a voice saith, all are mortal,
Yea, all flesh must fade as grass,
Only through Death's gloomy portal,
To a better life ye pass,
And this body formed of clay
Here must languish and decay,
Ere it rise in glorious might,
Fit to dwell with saints in light.
--Tr. C. Winkworth
Audio track was created with Hauptwerk v. 1 software
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