O Jesu Christ, meins Lebens Licht (O Jesus Christ, light of my life), BWV 118, is a sacred motet composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. It is known to have been performed at a funeral, and was possibly a generic work intended for funerals. When the work was first published in the nineteenth century it was called a cantata, perhaps because it has an instrumental accompaniment. While it is not an a cappella work, modern scholarship accepts it is a motet.

Librettist Martin Behm (1557-1622)
Date of composition 1747 (1736-37 (Version 1) 1746-47 (Version 2))
Premiered 1736
Type Motet
Tonality B-flat Major
Catalogue BWV 118
Spoken language German
Instruments Chorus/Choir
Orchestra
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Autotranslations beta Jean-Sébastien Bach: O Jesu Christ, mein's Lebens Licht en si bémol majeur, BWV 118
Johann Sebastian Bach: O Jesu Christ, mein's Lebens Licht in si bemolle maggiore, BWV 118
Johann Sebastian Bach: O Jesu Christ, mein's Lebens Licht B-dur, BWV 118