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No. 38.: How falsely doth the world accuse ! ( Mir hat die Welt truglich gericht’t ) - 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. 38.

How falsely doth the world accuse! (Mir hat die Welt truglich gericht’t)

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Melody:In dich hab’ ich gehoffet, Herr

Seth Calvisius 1581

The melody, “In dich hab’ ich gehoffet, Herr,” was composed by Seth Calvisius (Kallwitz). He was born at Gorsleben (Thuringia) in 1556, and became Cantor of St Thomas’ Church, Leipzig, in 1594. He died in 1615. The melody was first published by the Augsburg preacher Gregorius Sunderreitter in his Psalter, Davids Himlische Harpffen von neuwem auffgezogen (Nurnberg, 1581), a revision of his Augsburg Psalterium of 1574. It was there associated with Reissner’s Hymn, and again in Calvisius’s Hymni sacri Latini et germanici (Erfurt, 1594). By 1627 (Schein’s Cantional) the melody had assumed the form, to a great extent, in which Bach uses it.

Bach uses the melody elsewhere in the “Christmas Oratorio” (No. 46), and in the Cantatas, “Falsche Welt, dir trau ich nicht” (No. 52), for the Twenty-third Sunday after Trinity; and “Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit” (No. 106, the Actus Tragicus).

The words of the Choral are the fifth stanza of Adam Reissner’s, or Reusner’s, Hymn (based on Psalm xxxi), “In dich hab’ ich gehoffet, Herr,” which was first published in Form und Ordnung Gaystlicher Gesang und Psalmen, Augsburg, 1533. Adam Reissner was born at Mindelheim in Swabian Bavaria in 1496. He fought in the Italian campaign, 1526-27, and was present at the sack of Rome in the latter year. He died at Mindelheim circ. 1575:

  • Mir hat die Welt truglich gericht’t
  • Mit Lugen und mit falschem G’dicht1 ,
  • Viel Netz und heimlich Strikken.
  • Herr, nimm mein wahr
  • In dieser G’fahr,
  • B’hut’ mich vor falschen Tukken.
  • B.G. iv. 151.

Translations of Reissner’s Hymn are noted on page 955 of the Dictionary of Hymnology.

Form. Simple (2 Fl., 2 Ob., Strings, Organ, and Continuo).