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Cantata XXV.: Es ist nichts Gesundes an meinem Leibe 1 . Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity ( c. 1731) - Johann Sebastian Bach, Bach’s Chorals, vol. 2 The Hymns and Hymn Melodies of the Cantatas and Motetts [1917]

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Bach’s Chorals. Part I: 2 The Hymns and Hymn Melodies of the Cantatas and Motetts, by Charles Sanford Terry (Cambridge University Press, 1915-1921). 3 vols. Vol. 2.

Part of: Bach’s Chorals, 3 vols.

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Cantata XXV.

Es ist nichts Gesundes an meinem Leibe1 . Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity (c. 1731)

For the melody of the concluding Choral, “Ainsi qu’on oit le cerf,” see Cantata 13.

The words of the concluding Choral are the twelfth stanza of Johann Heermann’s “Treuer Gott, ich muss dir klagen,” first published in his Devoti Musica Cordis (Leipzig, 1630), to the above melody:

  • Ich will alle meine Tage
  • Ruhmen deine starke Hand,
  • Dass du meine Plag’ und Klage
  • Hast so herzlich abgewandt.
  • Nicht nur in der Sterblichkeit
  • Soll dein Ruhm sein ausgebreit’t:
  • Ich will’s auch hernach erweisen,
  • Und dort ewiglich dich preisen.

  • B.G. v. (i) 188.

English translations of the Hymn are noted in the Dictionary of Hymnology, p. 505.

Form. Simple (Cornetto, 3 Trombones, 3 Fl., 2 Ob., Strings, Continuo). Choralgesänge, No. 101.

In the opening Chorus of the Cantata (B.G. v. (i) 158) Bach introduces the melody of the penitential hymn, “Ach Herr, mich armen Sünder.” The tune is more familiar as “Herzlich thut mich verlangen” (see Cantata 135)2 .

[1 ] English versions of the Cantata are published by Novello & Co., “There is nought of soundness in all my body,” and Breitkopf & Haertel, “There is no more soundness in all my body.”

[2 ] See Spitta, ii. 466-7, on the movement.