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Cantata LXXI.: Gott ist mein König. For the Inauguration of the Town Council, Mühlhausen (1708) - 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 LXXI.

Gott ist mein König. For the Inauguration of the Town Council, Mühlhausen (1708)

The Choral melody of the second movement is the 1693 tune, “O Gott, du frommer Gott” (see Cantata 24).

The words of the Choral are the sixth stanza of Johann Heermann’s “O Gott, du frommer Gott” (see Cantata 24):

  • Soll ich auf dieser Welt
  • Mein Leben höher bringen,
  • Durch manchen sauren Tritt
  • Hindurch in’s Alter dringen:
  • So gieb Geduld; vor Sund’
  • Und Schanden mich bewahr’,
  • Auf dass ich tragen mag
  • Mit Ehren graues Haar1 .
  • B.G. xviii. 12.

Form. A Tenor “Aria con Corale in Canto” sung by a Soprano, i.e. a Duetto (Organ)2 .

[1 ] 1630

  • Das ich mit Ehren trag
  • All meine grawe Haar.

Bach’s last two lines are taken from the 1636 edition of the Devoti Musica Cordis.

[2 ] See Spitta, i. 346-348, on Bach’s combination of Bible verses with suitable stanzas of Chorals. Strictly, the movement is a Trio for Sopiano (having the Choral melody), Tenor (having an independent Aria), and an accompanying Continuo.