Un coral, "Innsbruck, ich muss dich lassen" y sus travesías

 Innsbruck, ich muss dich lassen, Heinrich Isaac, 1450-1517

Innsbruck, I must leave you

For I am traveling the road 

to a foreign land. 

Deprived of my joy 

and knowing not how to get it back, 

I will be in misery. 

I am burdened with great sorrow

which I can shed only 

through the one dearest to me. 

O my love, leave me not bereft 

of compassion in your heart 

that I must part from you. 

My comfort above all other women, 

I remain yours forever,
always faithful, in true honor.
And now, may God protect you,
safe in virtue,
till I return. 

Su contrafacta religiosa: 

O World, I must leave you, 

I travel from here along my way 

to the everlasting fatherland. 

I will give up my spirit 

so that my body and life 

lie in God’s merciful hand.

My time is now completed, 

death ends my life, 

to die is to my advantage, 

there is no staying on earth, 

I must gain eternity, 

with peace and joy I travel hence.

My trust is placed in God,
I will behold his face
truly through Jesus Christ
who has died for me,
gained the fathers grace
and so has become my mediator.

Johann Sebastian Bach, Cantata "Meine Seufzer, meine Tränen" (Mis suspiros y mis lágrimas), 1726

My sighs, my tears 

cannot be counted. 

when melancholy is met daily, 

and misery does not go away, 

ah, then for us this pain must 

already pave the way to death. 

 Johannes Brahms, Preludios corales, 1896