Buxtehude
Peter J. Leithart
February 27, 2010
Category: Music
“O Sacred Head Now Wounded” is only a portion of a much longer poem by Bernard of Clairvaux, a blason on the crucified Jesus. The Baroque composer Dieterich Buxtehude set the whole poem to music in Membra Jesu Nostri, and there’s a wonderful performance by the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis available on YouTube.
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