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"Er denket der Barmherzigkeit" is the fifth movement (aria/duet) from Johann Sebastian Bach's church cantata BWV 10, "Meine Seel erhebt den Herren", composed in 1724 for the Feast of the Visitation. It is a striking duet for alto and tenor with obbligato oboes and a trumpet playing the cantus firmus of the Magnificat tone. Bach himself later valued this movement highly, transcribing it for organ as one of his celebrated Schübler Chorales (BWV 648).