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  • CPDL #23588:  Icon_pdf.gif Icon_snd.gif [ Capella]
Editor: Gerd Eichler (submitted 2011-05-20).   Score information: A4, 6 pages, 123 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes:
Editor: Peter Kaplan (submitted 2010-12-23).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 108 kB    Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: In original key. Altus part written in tenor clef.

General Information

Title: Unser Leben währet siebnzig Jahr
Translated Title: The length of our days is seventy years
Composer: Johann Hermann Schein
Larger work: Israelsbrünnlein (Fontana d'Israel)

Number of voices: 5vv, polyphonicvv   Voicing: SSTTB
or SSATB
Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: German
Instruments: Basso continuo
Published: 1623

Description: Number 15 from Johann Schein's masterwork Israelsbrünnlein (or Fontana d'Israel).

Original text and translations

German.png German text
Unser Leben währet siebenzig Jahr, und wenn's hoch kömmt so sind's achtzig Jahr,
und wenn es köstlich gewesen ist, so ist es Müh' und Arbeit gewesen.

English.png English translation
The length of our days is seventy years — or eighty, if we have the strength;
yet for all their exquisiteness, their span is but trouble and sorrow.

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