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Cantata XCI.: Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ. Christmas Day ( c. 1740) - 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 XCI.

Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ. Christmas Day (c. 1740)

A Choral Cantata, on Luther’s Christmas Hymn, “Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ” (see Cantata 64). The melody of the three Choral movements of the Cantata is that of the Hymn (see Cantata 64).

(a)

The words of the opening movement are the first stanza of the Hymn:

  • Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ!
  • Dass du Mensch geboren bist
  • Von einer Jungfrau, das ist wahr,
  • Dess freuet sich der Engel Schaar.
  • Kyrie eleis!
  • B.G. xxii. 3.

Form. Choral Fantasia (2 Cor., Timpani, 3 Ob., Strings, Continuo).

(b)

The words of the Choral in the second movement are the second stanza of Luther’s Hymn:

  • Des ew’gen Vaters einig’s Kind
  • Jetzt man in der Krippe find’t.
  • In unser armes Fleisch und Blut
  • Verkleidet sich das ew’ge Gut.
  • B.G. xxii. 21.

Form. “Recitativ und Choral” for Soprano (Continuo)1 .

(c)

The words of the concluding Choral are the seventh stanza of Luther’s Hymn:

  • Das hat er Alles uns gethan,
  • Sein’ gross’ Lieb’ zu zeigen an;
  • Dess freu’ sich alle Christenheit,
  • Und dank’ ihm dess in Ewigkeit.
  • Kyrieleis!
  • B.G. xxii. 32.

Form. Embellished (2 Cor., Timpani, 3 Ob., Strings, Continuo). Choralgesange, No. 109.

[1 ] See p. 44 supra.