He rolled off the chorale with redundant meaning, and with huge, flamboyant strokes went through the brilliant octave finale in B major.
"Melomaniacs"
James Huneker
Once he had forgotten, she had heard, and had stayed in his box, having very unfortunately been visited there by a revelation concerning potash that caught him up into oblivion for the best part of an hour, during which the chorale was gone through with an increasing faintness fifteen times.
"The Pastor's Wife"
Elizabeth von Arnim
It was Bach, however, who moulded the tune into the "Passion chorale," one of the world's masterpieces of sacred music.
"The Story of Our Hymns"
Ernest Edwin Ryden