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Cantata XXVIII.: Gottlob! nun geht das Jahr zu Ende 1 . Sunday after Christmas ( c. 1725 2 ) - 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 XXVIII.

Gottlob! nun geht das Jahr zu Ende1 . Sunday after Christmas (c. 17252 )

(a)

The melody of the second movement is Johann Kugelmann’s (?) “Nun lob’, mein’ Seel’, den Herren” (see Cantata 17).

The words of the movement are the first stanza of Johann Graumann’s Hymn, “Nun lob’, mein’ Seel’, den Herren” (see Cantata 17):

  • Nun lob’, mein’ Seel’, den Herren,
  • Was3 in mir ist, den Namen sein!
  • Sein Wohlthat thut er mehren,
  • Vergiss es nicht, O Herze mein.
  • Hat dir dein’ Sund’ vergeben,
  • Und heilt dein’ Schwachheit gross,
  • Errett’t dein armes Leben,
  • Nimmt dich in seinen Schoos:
  • Mit reichem Trost beschuttet,
  • Verjungt dem Adler gleich.
  • Der Kön’g schafft Recht, behutet
  • Die leiden in seinem Reich.

  • B.G. v. (i) 258.

Form. Choral Motett (Cornetto, 3 Trombones, 2 Ob., Strings, Continuo). Erk, No. 3194 .

(b)

For the melody of the concluding Choral, “Helft mir Gott’s Güte preisen,” see Cantata 11.

The words of the concluding Choral are the sixth stanza of Paul Eber’s New Year’s Hymn, “Helft mir Gott’s Güte preisen” (see Cantata 16):

  • All’ solch’ dein’ Gut’ wir preisen,
  • Vater in’s Himmelsthron,
  • Die du uns thust beweisen,
  • Durch Christum, deinen Sohn,
  • Und bitten ferner1 dich:
  • Gieb uns ein friedlich’s2 Jahre,
  • Fur allem Leid bewahre
  • Und nahr’ uns mildiglich.

  • B.G. v. (i) 272.

Form. Simple (Cornetto, 3 Trombones, 2 Ob., Taille3 , Strings, Continuo). Choralgesänge, No. 124.

[1 ] English versions of the Cantata are published by Novello & Co., “O praise the Lord for all His mercies,” and Breitkopf & Haertel, “Praise God! the year draws to its closing.”

[2 ] Wustmann suggests c. 1736.

[3 ] 1540 Und was.

[4 ] The third movement (“Sei Lob und Preis mit Ehren”) of the otherwise spurious Bach Motett, “Jauchzet dem Herrn alle Welt,” is almost identical with the above Chorus, excepting for the substitution of the fifth for the first stanza of Graumann’s Hymn. See Spitta, ii. 716.

[1 ]c. 1580 forder.

[2 ]c. 1580 frolich.

[3 ] The Taille was a Tenor Bassoon.