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Cantata LXXV.: Die Elenden sollen essen. First Sunday after Trinity 1 (1723) - 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 LXXV.

Die Elenden sollen essen. First Sunday after Trinity1 (1723)

(a)

The melody of the concluding Choral of Part I is that of Samuel Rodigast’s Hymn, “Was Gott thut, das ist wohlgethan” (see Cantata 12).

The words of the Choral are the fifth stanza of that Hymn:

  • Was Gott thut, das ist wohlgethan!
  • Muss ich den Kelch gleich schmecken,
  • Der bitter ist nach meinem Wahn:
  • Lass ich mich doch nicht2 schrecken
  • Weil doch zuletzt ich werd’ ergotzt
  • Mit sussem Trost im Herzen;
  • Da weichen alle Schmerzen.

  • B.G. xviii. 171.

Form. Extended (2 Ob., Strings, Continuo).

(b)

The Second Part of the Cantata opens with an Orchestral Sinfonia, or Orchestral Choral Fantasia (Tromba, Strings, Continuo), on the melody “Was Gott thut.” Schweitzer1 observes that this is the only occasion on which Bach has given a Choral purely orchestral treatment. The Tromba has the cantus.

(c)

The words, melody, and form of the Choral concluding the Second Part are identical with those of (a) supra.

[1 ] Spitta, ii. 357 n., points out that the Cantata, in an abridged and altered form, beginning with the first Recitativo, was known under the title, “Was hilft des Purpurs Majestat.”

[2 ] 1676 nichts.

[1 ] Vol. ii. 150. See also Spitta, ii. 355.