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Cantata XXIX.: Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir. For the Inauguration of the Town Council, Leipzig (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 XXIX.

Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir. For the Inauguration of the Town Council, Leipzig (1731)

For the melody of the concluding Choral, Johann Kugelmann’s (?) “Nun lob’, mein’ Seel’, den Herren,” see Cantata 17.

The words of the concluding Choral are the fifth stanza of Johann Graumann’s Hymn, “Nun lob’, mein’ Seel’, den Herren” (see Cantata 17). The stanza is an addendum to the four published in 1540 and appeared posthumously in a broadsheet reprint of the Hymn at Nürnberg c. 1555:

  • * Sei Lob und Preis mit Ehren,
  • Gott Vater, Sohn, heiligem Geist!
  • Der woll’ in uns vermehren,
  • Was er uns aus Gnaden verheisst,
  • Dass wir ihm fest vertrauen,
  • Gänzlich verlass’n auf ihn,
  • Von Herzen auf ihn bauen,
  • Dass uns’r Herz, Muth und Sinn
  • Ihm tröstlich soll’n anhangen;
  • Drauf singen wir zur Stund’:
  • Amen! wir werden’s erlangen,
  • Glaub’n wir aus Herzens Grund.
  • B.G. v. (i) 316.

Form. Embellished (3 Trombe, Timpani, 2 Ob., Strings, Organ, Continuo). Choralgesange, No. 272.