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Cantata XCVIII.: Was Gott thut, das ist wohlgethan. Twenty-first Sunday after Trinity ( c. 1732) - 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 XCVIII.

Was Gott thut, das ist wohlgethan. Twenty-first Sunday after Trinity (c. 1732)

The words and melody of the opening movement are from Samuel Rodigast’s Hymn, “Was Gott thut, das ist wohlgethan” (see Cantata 12). The words are the first stanza of the Hymn:

  • Was Gott thut, das ist wohlgethan,
  • Es bleibt gerecht sein Wille;
  • Wie er fangt meine1 Sachen an
  • Will ich ihm halten stille.
  • Er ist mein Gott, der in der Noth
  • Mich wohl weiss zu erhalten:
  • Drum lass’ ich ihn nur walten.

  • B.G. xxii. 233.

Form. Choral Fantasia (2 Ob., Taille2 , Strings, Continuo).

[1 ] 1676 seine.

[2 ] The Taille was a Tenor Bassoon.