Wachet auf
Wachet auf (Wake up!, often trans. as ‘Sleepers, awake’). Church cantata No.140 by J. S. Bach, 1731, based on Lutheran chorale. Also choral-prelude for organ (BWV 645) by J. S. Bach. ‘Wach’ auf’ is ch. in Act 3 of Wagner's Die Meistersinger, sung to words by orig. Hans Sachs.
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