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Dietrich Buxtehude Composer
Nun bitten wir den heiligen Geist, BuxWV209
Performances: 3
Tracks: 2
MIDIs: 1
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Nun bitten wir den heiligen Geist, BuxWV209Key: G
Year: ca. 1690
Genre: Prelude / Fugue
Pr. Instrument: Organ (Baroque)
This chorale that serves as the basis for this prelude was sung at Pentecost Sunday mass. The text of the chorale asks the Holy Ghost for various favors. The first verse reads as follows: "Now we ask the Holy Ghost for a righteous faith, and that he protect us up to the our end, when we travel home from this misery. Kyrieleis." Buxtehude places the chorale melody in the soprano range and ornaments it freely and elegantly. He often allows the ornamentation of the chorale melody to create octave disjunctions and altogether seven times the ornamentation of the melody either rises or drops an octave removed from the original octave placement of the melody.
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