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Front Page Titles (by Subject) No. 21.: Receive me, my Redeemer ( Erkenne mich, mein Huter ) - Bach's Chorals, vol. 1 The Hymns and Hymn Melodies of the Passions and Oratorios
Return to Title Page for Bach’s Chorals, vol. 1 The Hymns and Hymn Melodies of the “Passions” and OratoriosThe Online Library of LibertyA project of Liberty Fund, Inc.No. 21.: Receive me, my Redeemer ( Erkenne mich, mein Huter ) - Johann Sebastian Bach, Bach’s Chorals, vol. 1 The Hymns and Hymn Melodies of the “Passions” and Oratorios [1915]Edition used:Bach’s Chorals. Part I: The Hymns and Hymn Melodies of the “Passions” and Oratorios, by Charles Sanford Terry (Cambridge University Press, 1915-1921). 3 vols. Vol. 1.
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No. 21.Receive me, my Redeemer (Erkenne mich, mein Huter)![]() Melody: “Herzlich thut mich verlangen” Hans Leo Hassler 1601 Hans Leo Hassler’s melody was published first in his Lustgarten Neuer Teutscher Gesang, Balletti, Galliarden und Intraden mit 4, 5, 6 und 8 Stimmen, Nurnberg, 1601. It was, however, set there to a secular love song, “Mein G’mut ist mir verwirret von einer Jungfrau zart.” Hassler, who was born at Nurnberg in 1564, studied music at Venice, and was organist and choirmaster at Nurnberg from 1601 to 1608. He was called to Dresden by the Electoral Prince in 1608, and died in his service in 1612. Like so many other secular tunes, Hassler’s was pressed into the service of the Church. In 1613 it was attached to Christoph Knoll’s (1563-1650) Hymn, “Herzlich thut mich verlangen.” (Harmoniae sacrae, Gorlitz, 1613), and forty-three years later, in Johann Cruger’s Praxis Pietatis Melica (Frankfort, 1656), was set to Paul Gerhardt’s “O Haupt voll Blut.” The melody is the principal one in the “St Matthew Passion” and is employed again in Nos. 23, 53, 63, and 72. Bach uses it also in the “Christmas Oratorio” (Nos. 5, 64), and in four of the Cantatas: “Ach Herr, mich armen Sunder” (No. 135), for the Third Sunday after Trinity; “Schau, lieber Gott, wie meine Feind’ ” (No. 153), for the Sunday after the Circumcision; “Sehet, wir geh’n hinauf nach Jerusalem” (No. 159), for Quinquagesima; and “Komm, du susse Todesstunde!” (No. 161), for the Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity. There are other harmonisations of the tune in the Choralgesange, Nos. 157, 158. The words of the Choral are the fifth stanza of Paul Gerhardt’s Passiontide Hymn, “O Haupt voll Blut,” a translation of St Bernard of Clairvaulx’ (?) “Salve caput cruentatum.” It appeared first in Johann Cruger’s Praxis Pietatis Melica, Frankfort, 1656. Other stanzas of the Hymn are used in Nos. 23, 63, and 72 infra:
English translations of the Hymn are noted in the Dictionary of Hymnology, pp. 835, 1681. Form. Simple (2 Fl., 2 Ob., Strings, Organ, and Continuo). |

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