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Cantata XLIV.: Sie werden euch in den Bann thun 3 . Sixth Sunday after Easter (“Exaudi”) 4 ( c. 1725) - 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 XLIV.

Sie werden euch in den Bann thun3 . Sixth Sunday after Easter (“Exaudi”)4 (c. 1725)

(a)

For the melody of the fourth movement, “Ach Gott, wie manches Herzeleid,” see Cantata 3.

The words are part of the first stanza of Martin Moller’s (?) “Ach Gott, wie manches Herzeleid” (see Cantata 3):

  • Ach Gott, wie manches Herzeleid
  • Begegnet mir zu dieser Zeit!
  • Der schmale Weg ist trübsalvoll,
  • Den ich zum Himmel wandern soll.

  • B.G. x. 143.

Form. Tenor Unison Choral (Fagotto, Continuo).

(b)

For the melody of the concluding Choral, Heinrich Isaak’s “O Welt, ich muss dich lassen,” see Cantata 13. The words are the fifteenth stanza of Paul Flemming’s “In allen meinen Thaten” (see Cantata 13):

  • So sei nun, Seele, deine,
  • Und traue dem alleine,
  • Der dich erschaffen1 hat.
  • Es gehe, wie es gehe:
  • Dein Vater in der Hohe
  • Der weiss zu allen Sachen Rath2 .

  • B.G. x. 150.

Form. Simple (2 Ob., Fagotto, Strings, Continuo). Choralgesänge, No. 296.

[3 ] An English version of the Cantata, “You will they put under ban,” is published by Breitkopf & Haertel.

[4 ] The Sunday is the First after Ascension Day.

[1 ] 1642 geschaffen.

[2 ] 1642 Weiss allen Sachen Raht. Bach’s last line appears in a recension of the Hymn dated 1670.