page_title: Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir
section_title: Organ settings
hierarchical_section_title: Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir / Musical settings / Organ settings
caption_attribution_description: English: First page of original print of BWV 686 Aus tiefer Noth Shrei' ich zu dir from Clavier-Übung III
context_page_description: "Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir", originally "Aus tieffer not schrey ich zu dir", later also "Aus tiefer Noth schrei' ich zu dir", is a Lutheran hymn of 1524, with words written by Martin Luther as a paraphrase of Psalm 130. It was first published in 1524 as one of eight songs in the first Lutheran hymnal, the Achtliederbuch, which contained four songs by Luther, three by Paul Speratus, and one by Justus Jonas, and also appeared the same year in the Erfurt Enchiridion. It is part of many hymnals, also in translations. The text inspired vocal and organ music from the Renaissance to contemporary, including composers such as Johann Sebastian Bach, who based a chorale cantata on it, Felix Mendelssohn and Max Reger.
context_section_description: Hans Kotter (c. 1480 – 1541) composed the "earliest extant organ setting of a Protestant chorale", an intabulation. 17th-century chorale preludes include works by Johann Pachelbel, Johann Heinrich Scheidemann, Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow and Christian Geist.
  Johann Sebastian Bach set the chorale preludes twice in his Clavier-Übung III, in BWV 686 and BWV 687, the first with six voices, including a double pedal with the cantus firmus in the tenor voice at half the speed ("augmentation"). In 1873 Philipp Spitta singled out the chorale prelude BWV 686 as follows: "It is significant of Bach's manner of feeling that he should choose this chorale for the crowning point of his work. For it cannot be questioned that this chorale is its crowning point, from the ingenuity of the part-writing, the wealth and nobility of the harmonies, and the executive power which it requires.". 
  Amongst 19th-century composers, Felix Mendelssohn based the third of his Organ Sonatas, Op. 65, on the chorale Franz Liszt wrote a setting for organ and harmonium based on BWV 38. 
  In the 20th century, Max Reger composed a chorale prelude as No. 3 of his 52 Chorale Preludes, Op. 67 in 1902. Waldemar von Baußnern wrote a chorale fantasia in 1912. In 1965 Jürg Baur composed a Chorale Partita for organ on the hymn Aus tiefer Not. In 1978 the Netherlandish composer Henk Badings also wrote an organ prelude based on the hymn.
caption: First page of Bach's original print of BWV 686 from his Clavier-Übung III
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