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No. 64.: Now vengeance hath been taken ( Nun seid ihr wohl gerochen ) - 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. 64.

Now vengeance hath been taken (Nun seid ihr wohl gerochen)

For Hans Hassler’s melody, “Herzlich thut mich verlangen,” see the “St Matthew Passion,” No. 21 supra.

The words of the Choral are the fourth stanza of Georg Werner’s Hymn, “Ihr Christen auserkoren.” Werner was born in 1589 at Preussisch-Holland, near Elbing. In 1614 he became master in a school at Konigsberg, and in 1621 was appointed deacon of the Lobenicht Church there. He died at Konigsberg in 1643. He edited the New Preussisches vollstandiges Gesangbuch (Konigsberg, 1650 [1643]), and contributed Hymns to Bernhard Derschau’s Ausserlesene Geistliche Lieder, Konigsberg, 1639. The Hymn “Ihr Christen auserkoren” was published in Johann Cruger’s Praxis Pietatis Melica (Berlin, 1647):

  • Nun seid ihr wohl gerochen
  • An eurer Feinde Schaar,
  • Denn Christus hat zerbrochen
  • Was euch zuwider war;
  • Tod, Teufel, Sund’ und Holle
  • Sind ganz und gar geschwacht,
  • Bei Gott hat seine Stelle
  • Das menschliche Geschlecht
  • B.G. v. (2) 256.

Form. Extended (3 Trombe, Timpani, 2 Ob., Strings, Organ, and Continuo).

THE ASCENSION ORATORIO

(Cantata 11, Lobet Gott in seinen Reichen) (circ. 1736)