"Nun lasst uns den Leib begraben" ("now let us bury the body"; second word also spelled as "laßt" or "lasset") is a Lutheran hymn for

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s. Its text author is

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. It is for instance included in the ''

Neu Leipziger Gesangbuch Gottfried Vopelius (28 January 1645 – 3 February 1715), was a German Lutheran academic and hymn-writer, mainly active in Leipzig. He was born in Herwigsdorf, now a district of Rosenbach, Oberlausitz, and died in Leipzig at the age of 70. Ro ...

''. Gottfried Vopelius. ''

''. Leipzig: Christoph Klinger, 1682
pp. 926–928
Johann Sebastian Bach set its

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, Zahn No. 352, as a chorale prelude for

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: ''Nun lasset uns den Leib begraben'', BWV 1111, one of the

Neumeister Chorales The Neumeister Collection is a compilation of 82 chorale preludes found in a manuscript copy produced by Johann Gottfried Neumeister (1757–1840). When the manuscript was rediscovered at Yale University in the 1980s it appeared to contain 31 previ ...

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