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Cantata LXXXVI.: Wahrlich, wahrlich, ich sage euch. Fifth Sunday after Easter (“Rogate”) ( 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 LXXXVI.

Wahrlich, wahrlich, ich sage euch. Fifth Sunday after Easter (“Rogate”) (c. 1725)

(a)

The melody of the third movement of the Cantata is Georg Grüenwald’s “Kommt her zu mir, spricht Gottes Sohn” (see Cantata 74).

The words of the movement are the sixteenth stanza of Grüenwald’s Hymn, first published, with the tune, as a broadsheet, entitled “Ain schons newes Christlichs lyed” (1530).

Grüenwald, an Anabaptist shoemaker, was burnt at the stake as a heretic at Kufstein, in Tyrol, in 1530:

  • Und was der ewig gut’ge1 Gott
  • In seinem Wort2 versprochen hat,
  • Geschwor’n bei seinem Namen,
  • Das halt und giebt er g’wiss furwahr3 .
  • Er4 helf’ uns zu5 der Engel6 Schaar
  • Durch Jesum Christum, Amen!

  • B.G. xx. (i) 127.

English translations of the Hymn are noted in the Dictionary of Hymnology, p. 472.

Form. Soprano Unison Choral (2 Ob., Continuo)7

(b)

The concluding Choral is set to the words and melody of Paul Speratus’ “Es ist das Heil uns kommen her” (see Cantata 9).

The words are the eleventh stanza of the Hymn:

  • Die Hoffnung wart’t der rechten Zeit,
  • Was Gottes Wort zusaget:
  • Wenn das geschehen soll zur Freud’,
  • Setzt Gott kein’ g’wisse Tage.
  • Er weiss wohl, wenn’s am besten ist,
  • Und braucht an uns kein’ arge List;
  • Dess soll’n wir ihm vertrauen.

  • B.G. xx. (i) 134.

Form. Simple (Continuo). Choralgesänge, No. 86.

[1 ] 1530 gwaltig.

[2 ] 1530 Geyst.

[3 ] 1530 unnd war.

[4 ] 1530 Der.

[5 ] 1530 in.

[6 ] 1530 heylig.

[7 ] In the B.G. Score the voice is not stated.