Op 67 No 35 Seelenbräutigam

The 19th is Reger's Birthday.
No 35 SEELENBRÄUTIGAM of the 52 Easy Chorale preludes Op 67

Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger (19 March 1873 – 11 May 1916), commonly known as Max Reger, was a German composer, pianist, organist, conductor, and academic teacher. He worked as a concert pianist, as a musical director at the Leipzig University Church, as a professor at the Royal Conservatory in Leipzig, and as a music director at the court of Duke Georg II of Saxe-Meiningen.

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Information about the chorale is here;
http://www.bach-cantatas.com/CM/BWV496.htm

The chorale can be heard here;
Seelen-Bräutigam, Jesu, Gottes Lamm BWV 496 or 409
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoZ48u9pmsw

SEELENBRÄUTIGAM
Composer:
Adam Drese was born in Dec. 1620, in Thuringia, probably at Weimar. He was at first musician at the court of Duke Wilhelm, of Sachse-Weimar; and after being sent by the Duke for further training under Marco Sacchi at Warsaw, was appointed his Kapellmeister in 1655. Drese remained in Jena till 1683, when he was appointed Kapellmeister at Arnstadt to Prince Anton Günther, of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen. He died at Arnstadt, Feb. 15, 1701