Johann Sebastian Bach

Jesus Alegria Dos Homens Music Sheet

Explore the Jesus Alegria Dos Homens virtual piano sheet and Roblox piano sheet, compare available arrangements, and play online with QWERTY notes. Jesus Alegria dos Homens is a Portuguese-language title for the familiar chorale Jesus bleibet meine Freude, often known in English through the later phrase Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring. Its underlying work is not a Bach piano piece but a chorale setting within the sacred cantata Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147. The cantata's Leipzig version dates from 1723 and presents the chorale melody twice, including the closing movement. The melody itself predates Bach; Bach's contribution is the setting and treatment within the cantata, not authorship of an original piano tune. The selected catalog source is a Portuguese-titled community piano arrangement. Its keyboard texture and difficulty belong to that later reduction, with no claim that the arrangement is the cantata's original medium.

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What work does Jesus Alegria dos Homens refer to?

It refers to the chorale Jesus bleibet meine Freude from Bach's cantata Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147.

Where does the chorale appear in BWV 147?

The melody appears in movements 6 and 10, with movement 10 serving as the closing chorale in the common numbering.

Did Bach compose the underlying melody?

No. The chorale melody predates Bach. Bach created the cantata setting and harmonization associated with BWV 147.

Is this originally a piano work?

No. BWV 147 is a sacred cantata. Piano versions are later arrangements, including the community arrangement represented by this catalog entry.