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Cantata LXXII.: Alles nur nach Gottes Willen. Third Sunday after the Epiphany ( c. 1725 1 ) - 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 LXXII.

Alles nur nach Gottes Willen. Third Sunday after the Epiphany (c. 17251 )

For the melody of the concluding Choral, “Was mein Gott will, das g’scheh’ allzeit,” see Cantata 65.

The words of the Choral are the first stanza of Albrecht Margrave of Brandenburg-Culmbach’s only Hymn, “Was mein Gott will, das g’scheh’ allzeit,” first published as a broadsheet at Nurnberg c. 1554, and in Funff Schone Geistliche Lieder (Dresden, 1556):

  • Was mein Gott will, das g’scheh’ allzeit’,
  • Sein Will’ der ist der beste2 ;
  • Zu helfen den’n er ist bereit,
  • Die an ihn glauben feste.
  • Er hilft aus Noth,
  • Der fromme Gott,
  • Und zuchtiget3 mit Massen:
  • Wer Gott vertraut,
  • Fest auf ihn baut,
  • Den will er nicht verlassen.
  • B.G. xviii. 84.

English translations of the Hymn are noted in the Dictionary of Hymnology, p. 37.

Form. Simple (2 Ob., Strings, Continuo). Choralgesange, No. 344.

[1 ] Wustmann (p. 277) suggests a date before 1723.

[2 ]c. 1554 aller beste.

[3 ]c. 1554 Er trost die Welt.