Georg Christian Lehms
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Alias: Pallidor
Life
Born: 1684
Died: 15 May 1717
Biography Born in Liegnitz (now Legnica, Poland), Lehms studied at Leipzig and at the end of 1710 received his first post at Darmstadt, where he worked with the comosers Christoph Graupner and Gottfried Grünewald. Johann Sebastian Bach no doubt was familiar with his Das singende Lob Gottes, in einem Jahrgang andächtiger und Gottgefälliger Kirch-Music (variously dated 1711 or 1712) from which he set two Weimar cantatas in 1714 (BWV 54 & 199) and to which he returned 1725-6 durning his Leipzig period.
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Settings of text by Georg Christian Lehms
- Geist und Seele wird verwirret, BWV 35 (Johann Sebastian Bach)
- Herr Gott, dich loben wir, BWV 16 (Johann Sebastian Bach)
- Liebster Jesu, mein Verlangen, BWV 32 (Johann Sebastian Bach)
- Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut, BWV 199 (Johann Sebastian Bach)
- Meine Seufzer, meine Tränen, BWV 13 (Johann Sebastian Bach)
- Selig ist der Mann, BWV 57 (Johann Sebastian Bach)
- Süsser Trost, mein Jesus kömmt, BWV 151 (Johann Sebastian Bach)
- Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust, BWV 170 (Johann Sebastian Bach)
- Widerstehe doch der Sünde, BWV 54 (Johann Sebastian Bach)