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No. 25.: My Saviour, why must all this ill befall thee ? ( Was ist die Ursach’ aller solcher Plagen? ) - Johann Sebastian Bach, Bach’s Chorals, vol. 1 The Hymns and Hymn Melodies of the “Passions” and Oratorios [1915]

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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.

Part of: Bach’s Chorals, 3 vols.

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No. 25.

My Saviour, why must all this ill befall thee? (Was ist die Ursach’ aller solcher Plagen?)

For Johann Crüger’s melody, “Herzliebster Jesu,” see No. 3 supra.

The words of the Choral are the third stanza of Johann Heermann’s Passiontide Hymn, “Herzliebster Jesu, was hast du verbrochen” (see No. 3 supra):

  • Was ist die Ursach’ aller solcher Plagen1 ?
  • Ach, meine Sunden haben dich geschlagen2 !
  • Ich, ach Herr Jesu, habe dies verschuldet,
  • Was du erduldet!
  • B.G. iv. 55.

Form. The Choral (S.A.T.B.) is sung (Strings, Organ, and Continuo) in three detached phrases interrupting the Tenor Recitativo (2 Fl., 2 Ob. da caccia, Organ, and Continuo).