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Cantata XCIX.: Was Gott thut, das ist wohlgethan. Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity ( c. 1733) - 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 XCIX.

Was Gott thut, das ist wohlgethan. Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity (c. 1733)

A Choral Cantata3 , on Samuel Rodigast’s Hymn, “Was Gott thut, das ist wohlgethan.” The melody of the first and last movements is that of the Hymn (see Cantata 12).

(a)

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

  • Was Gott thut, das ist wohlgethan,
  • Es bleibt gerecht sein Wille;
  • Wie er fangt meine 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. 253.

Form. Choral Fantasia (Corno, Flauto, Oboe d’amore, Strings, Continuo).

(b)

The words of the concluding Choral are the sixth stanza of the Hymn:

  • Was Gott thut, das ist wohlgethan,
  • Dabei will ich verbleiben;
  • Es mag mich auf die rauhe Bahn
  • Noth, Tod und Elend treiben:
  • So wird Gott mich ganz vaterlich
  • In seinen Armen halten:
  • Drum lass’ ich ihn nur walten.
  • B.G. xxii. 276.

Form. Simple (Corno, Flauto, Oboe d’amore, Strings, Continuo). Choralgesänge, No. 341.

[3 ] See p. 32 supra.