Da Jesus an dem Kreuze stund (Michael Praetorius)

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  • CPDL #26420:     
Editor: Ross Jallo (submitted 2012-06-04).   Score information: Letter, 11 pages, 78 kB   Copyright: Public Domain
Edition notes: Original key.

General Information

Title: Da Jesus an dem Kreuze stund
Composer: Michael Praetorius
Lyricist: Johann Böschenstein

Number of voices: 8vv   Voicing: SATB.SATB

Genre: SacredMotet

Language: German
Instruments: A cappella

Published: Musae Sioniae, Part III, 1607

Description: This two-choir setting of the passion chorale Da Jesus an dem Kreuze stund is the sixth selection in Musae Sioniae, Part III (Helmstedt, 1607).

Original text and translations

German.png German text

Da Jesus an dem Kreuze stund,
und ihm sein Leichnam war verwundt,
so gar mit bittern Schmerzen,
die sieben Wort die Jesus sprach,
betracht in deinem Herzen.

(Johann Böschenstein, c. 1515)

English.png English translation

When Jesus on the cross was found,
His body pierced with many a wound,
With torture very bitter;
The dying words, which He then spake,
With a still heart consider.

(tr. Moravian Hymn-Book, 1746)