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Sigfrid Karg-Elert
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An Wasserflüssen Babylon, Op. 65, No. 12 Click to Listen, [3:24]
Rather saccharine and chromatic setting utilizing as nearly as possible the composer's unusual registration suggestions: 16' + 4' without 8', an arbitrary Clarinet added at one point. Instrument: E.M. Skinner Organ, Opus 719 at Our Lady of Mount Carmel - Chicago, Illinois (1928) - Samples by Brett Milan

Chorale Text
German:
An Wasserflüssen Babylon
Da sassen wir mit Schmerzen
Als wir gedachten an Zion,
Da weinten wir von Herzen.
Wir hingen auf mit schwerem Mut
Die Orgeln und die Harfen gut
An ihre Bäum der Weiden,
Die drinnen sind in ihrem Land;
Da mussten wir viel Schmach und Schand
Täglich von ihnen leiden.
--Wolfgang Dachstein, 1525

English
Beside the streams of Babylon
Our weary vigil keeping
When we remember Zion yon,
We never cease from weeping.
We hang our harps, in our despair,
Upon the weeping willows there
And mourn our degradation.
All we hold dear our foes defame
And we must suffer slur and shame
In daily tribulation.
--Henry S. Drinker, 1941


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