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Friedrich Wilhelm Zachau
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Christ unser Herr zum Jordan kam Click to Listen, [1:25]
Four part manualiter fughetta. SW Mixture II coupled to GT Stopped Diapason (T&B) + Principal 4' + Fifteenth 2' + Mixture III coupled to Pedal Bourdon 16' for ending. WellTemperament-Kirnberger3, +4dB output volume Instrument: Joseph Hart, Little Waldingfield, Suffolk, England, 1809 - Samples by Lavendar Audio

Chorale Text
German:
Christ unser Herr zum Jordan kam
Nach seines Vaters Willen,
Von Sankt Johanns die Taufe nahm,
Sein Werk und Amt zu erfüllen;
Da wollt er stiften uns ein Bad,
Zu waschen uns von Sünden,
Ersäufen auch den bittern Tod
Durch sein selbst Blut und Wunden;
Es galt ein neues Leben.

English:
Christ did our Lord to Jordan come,
His Father's will fulfilling,
And from Saint John baptism took,
His work and charge to accomplish;
Here would he found for us a bath
To wash us clean from error,
To drown as well our bitter death
In his own blood and anguish;
A life restored it gave us.
--Tr. Z. Philip Ambrose


Audio track was created with Hauptwerk v. 2 Samples using v. 3 software