He wrote a choral piece based on the first book of the New Testament.
Percy Grainger's Blithe Bells is a "free ramble" on part of a piece by this composer. Long melismas are used to pronounce "catholicam" and "ecclesiam" in the "Et in Spiritum Sanctum" movement of a piece by this composer, who used a Philipp Nicolai hymn as the basis for a piece featuring the chorale "Zion hears the watchmen singing." Parodic reworkings of this man's own choral music are littered throughout a mass by him which sets nine sections of the (*) Nicene creed to music and ends with the movement "Dona Nobis Pacem." Sleepers Wake and the Hunting Cantata are among this composer's hundreds of cantatas, many of which were written while he worked for a church in Leipzig. He wrote a choral piece based on the first book of the New Testament. For 10 points, identify this composer of a famous Mass in B Minor and the St. Matthew Passion.
Percy Grainger's Blithe Bells is a "free ramble" on part of a piece by this composer.
Johann Sebastian Bach [or Johann Sebastian Bach; prompt on Bach]