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Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben (Heart and Mouth and Deed and Life), BWV 147, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed it in Leipzig in 1723 for the Marian feast of the Visitation. The work is famous for its final chorale, "Jesu, bleibet meine Freude" (Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring), which is one of the most recognizable pieces of Baroque music. The cantata is scored for vocal soloists, choir, trumpet, oboes, strings, and basso continuo.