Pastorale for organ

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Very little is known of the precise origins of this Bach organ work which is usually known as the "Pastorale" in F, and sometimes Pastorella in some sources. It comprises of four sections, and is thought by most scholars to have been written for performance during the Christmas services held at the main Leipzig churches with which Bach was closely associated. The work was therefore written presumably around the year 1720. No autograph copy has survived, nor is there any plausible indication of how the work might have fitted into the Christmas liturgy, though it is now regarded as definitely Bach's work, having been long-disputed due to lack of clearly attributable material.