Bach’s most complex organ work is a set of five Canonic Variations on the well-known Christmas hymn Vom Himmel hoch, da komm ich her (From Heaven Above to Earth I Come). He treated this melody many times, perhaps most famously at the close of the first of his Christmas Oratorio’s six cantatas, sung to the words penned More
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