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No. 6.: Now at thy feet creation lies 1 ( Nun lieget alles unter dir ) - 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. 6.

Now at thy feet creation lies1 (Nun lieget alles unter dir)

For Johann Schop’s (see “St Matthew Passion,” No. 48) melody, “Ermuntre dich, mein schwacher Geist,” see the “Christmas Oratorio,” No. 12.

The words of the Choral are the fourth stanza of Johann Rist’s (see the “St Matthew Passion,” No. 48) Eucharistic Hymn, “Du Lebensfurst, Herr Jesu Christ.” It was first published in Rist’s Himlischer Lieder, Pt i., Lüneburg, 1641:

  • Nun lieget alles unter dir,
  • Dich selbst nur ausgenommen;
  • Die Engel mussen fur und fur
  • Dir aufzuwarten kommen.
  • Die Fursten stehn auch auf der Bahn,
  • Und sind dir willig unterthan;
  • Luft, Wasser, Feu’r und Erden
  • Muss dir zu Dienste werden
  • B.G. ii. 32.

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