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Cantata LXXXVII.: Bisher habt ihr nichts gebeten in meinem Namen. Fifth Sunday after Easter (“Rogate”) ( c. 1735) - 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 LXXXVII.

Bisher habt ihr nichts gebeten in meinem Namen. Fifth Sunday after Easter (“Rogate”) (c. 1735)

The melody of the concluding Choral is Johann Crüger’s “Jesu, meine Freude” (see Cantata 64).

The words of the Choral are the ninth stanza of Heinrich Müller’s “Selig ist die Seele.” The Hymn was first published, to a melody of its own, but with the superscription, “Mel.: Jesu, meine Freude,” in Müller’s Geistliche Seelen Musik (Rostock, 1659).

Müller was born at Lübeck in 1631, and from 1653 held various positions at Rostock, as Archdeacon, Professor in the University, pastor of two churches, and Superintendent. He died in 1675:

  • Muss ich sein betrübet?
  • So mich Jesus liebet,
  • Ist mir aller Schmerz
  • Über Honig süsse:
  • Tausend Zuckerkusse
  • Drücket er an’s Herz.
  • Wenn die Pein
  • Sich stellet ein,
  • Seine Liebe macht zur Freuden
  • Auch das bitt’re Leiden.
  • B.G. xx. (i) 152.

Form. Simple (Oboe, 2 Ob. da caccia, Strings, Continuo). Choralgesänge, No. 201.