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Cantata XCVII.: In allen meinen Thaten (1734 2 ) - 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 XCVII.

In allen meinen Thaten (17342 )

A Choral Cantata, on Paul Flemming’s Hymn, “In allen meinen Thaten” (see Cantata 13).

The melody of the two Choral movements of the Cantata is Heinrich Isaak’s “O Welt, ich muss dich lassen” (see Cantata 13), styled in the B.G. Score “Nun ruhen alle Walder.” The latter (Paul Gerhardt’s) Hymn was first published in 1647, with the direction: “Nach der Melod. O Welt, ich muss dich lassen.” Isaak’s melody has been attached to Johann Hesse’s “O Welt” since 15983 . From 1670, at least, the tune is associated with Paul Flemming’s “In allen meinen Thaten.”

(a)

The words of the opening movement are the first stanza of Paul Flemming’s Hymn:

  • In allen meinen Thaten
  • Lass’ ich den Höchsten rathen,
  • Der Alles kann und hat;
  • Er muss zu allen Dingen,
  • Soll’s anders wohl gelingen,
  • Selbst geben Rath und That.

  • B.G. xxii. 187.

Form. Choral Fantasia (2 Ob., Fagotti, Strings (including Violone), Organ).

(b)

The words of the concluding Choral are the fifteenth stanza of Flemming’s Hymn:

  • So sei nun, Seele, deine,
  • Und traue dem alleine,
  • Der dich erschaffen1 hat.
  • Es gehe, wie es gehe:
  • Mein2 Vater in der Hohe
  • Weiss allen Sachen Rath.

  • B.G. xxii. 230.

Form. Embellished (2 Ob., Strings, Organ, Continuo). Choralgesange, No. 297.

[2 ] Every movement of the Cantata is a stanza of the Hymn. The Score does not indicate the occasion for which the Cantata was written. Schweitzer, ii. 242 n., conjectures that it was used for a wedding.

[3 ] See Bach’s Chorals, Part I, 5.

[1 ] 1642 geschaffen.

[2 ] 1642 Dein.