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Cantata XXXIX.: Brich dem Hungrigen dein Brod 1 . First Sunday after Trinity ( c. 1740) - 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 XXXIX.

Brich dem Hungrigen dein Brod1 . First Sunday after Trinity (c. 1740)

The melody of the concluding Choral is Louis Bourgeois’ “Ainsi qu’on oit” (see Cantata 13)

The words of the concluding Choral are the sixth stanza of David Denicke’s paraphrase of the Beatitudes, “Kommt, lasst euch den Herren lehren.” The Hymn was first published, to Bourgeois’ melody, in the New Ordentlich Gesangbuch (Brunswick, 1648), of which Denicke and Justus Gesenius (1601-73) were the editors.

Denicke was born at Zittau in 1603. In 1629 he became tutor to the sons of Duke Georg of Brunswick-Lüneburg. He held various important public offices in Hanover and died in 1680:

  • Selig sind, die aus Erbarmen
  • Sich annehmen fremder Noth,
  • Sind mitleidig mit den Armen,
  • Bitten treulich fur sie Gott.
  • Die behulflich sind mit Rath,
  • Auch, so möglich, mit der That,
  • Werden wieder Hulf’ empfangen
  • Und Barmherzigkeit erlangen.
  • B.G. vii. 348.

Translations of the Hymn into English are noted in the Dictionary of Hymnology, p. 287.

Form. Simple (2 Fl., 2 Ob., Strings, Continuo). Choralgesange, No. 104.

[1 ] An English version of the Cantata, “Give the hungry man thy bread,” is published by Novello & Co.