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| has gloss | eng: The Canonic Variations on "Vom Himmel hoch da komm ich her" (From Heaven above to Earth I come), BWV 769, are a set of five variations in canon for organ with two manuals and pedals by Johann Sebastian Bach on the Christmas hymn by Martin Luther of the same name. The variations were prepared as a showpiece for Bachs entry as fourteenth member of Mizler's Music Society in Leipzig in 1747. The original printed edition of 1747, in which only one line of the canon was marked in the first three variations, was published by Balthasar Schmid in Nuremberg. Another version BWV 769a appears in the later autograph manuscript P 271, which also contains the six trio sonatas for organ BWV 525-530 and the Great Eighteen Chorale Preludes BWV 651–668. In this later version Bach modified the order of the variations, moving the fifth variation into a central position, and wrote out all the parts in full, with some minor revisions to the score. |
| has gloss | eng: The Canonic Variations on "Vom Himmel hoch da komm' ich her" (From Heaven above to Earth I come), BWV 769 is a well-known piece of music for organ by Johann Sebastian Bach. An organ with two manuals (keyboards) and pedals is needed to play this work. There are five “variations”. All the music is based on a Christmas hymn called “Von Himmel hoch” which was very well known to the people who went to the Lutheran church where Bach was organist. |
| lexicalization | eng: Canonic Variations on "Vom Himmel hoch da komm' ich her" |
| lexicalization | eng: Canonic Variations on Vom Himmel hoch da komm' ich her |
| instance of | e/List of compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach |
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| has gloss | deu: Die Canonischen Veränderungen über ein Weihnachtslied, (auch Canonische Veränderungen über Vom Himmel Hoch) sind eine fünfsätzige Orgelkomposition, die Johann Sebastian Bach 1746/47 schrieb und 1748 im Druck herausgab (BWV 769). Das Werk ist ein typischer Vertreter des kontrapunktischen Spätstils, den Bach in seinen letzten Lebensjahren entwickelte. |
| lexicalization | deu: Canonische Veränderungen |
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