Sleepers Awake! (Wake, Awake!) -- J. S. Bach
Lutheran pastor in Unna, a small town near Dortmund, Germany when the plague did its terrible work during the winter of 1597-1598. The plague took the lives of more than 1300 people in his community. He kept busy all winter conducting funerals, as many as thirty a day, and comforting the sick and grieving. He wrote this hymn as an encouragement -- a statement of faith in the coming of the Christ who overcame death on the cross -- and who overcomes death for us as well. Nicolai wrote both ...
Author: theremin137; Tags: Johann Sebastian Bach J. S. Bach organ chorale prelude wachet auf sleepers wake sleepers awake wake awake for night is flying
