Close the tomb! you mourning bells

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Bach cantata
Close the tomb! you mourning bells
BWV: Appendix 16
Occasion: uncertain
Year of origin: 1735
Place of origin: Leipzig
Genus: cantata
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Balthasar Hoffmann
List of Bach cantatas

Close the tomb! Her funeral bells ( BWV Appendix 16) is a lost funeral cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach , which he composed in Leipzig and probably performed in 1735. The text is by Balthasar Hoffmann . The music is lost; Whether Johann Sebastian Bach was the composer is unclear due to a lack of evidence.

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