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Cantata CVII.: Was willst du dich betrüben. Seventh Sunday after Trinity (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 CVII.

Was willst du dich betrüben. Seventh Sunday after Trinity (1735)

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Melody: “Was willst du dich betrüben”

Anon. 1704

A Choral Cantata, on Johann Heermann’s Hymn, “Was willst du dich betrüben,” first published, to the melody, “Von Gott will ich nicht lassen,” in his Devoti Musica Cordis (Leipzig, 1630). In Freylinghausen’s Gesangbuch (1704 [1703]) the Hymn is set to a tune obviously derived from that melody. Bach uses the latter in the first and last movements of the Cantata (see Cantata 11).

(a)

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

  • Was willst du dich betruben,
  • O meine liebe Seel’?
  • Ergieb dich den zu lieben1 ,
  • Der heisst Immanuel;
  • Vertraue1 ihm allein:
  • Er wird gut Alles machen
  • Und fördern2 deine Sachen,
  • Wie dir’s wird selig sein.

  • B.G. xxiii. 181.

Form. Choral Fantasia (Corno da caccia, 2 Fl., 2 Ob. d’amore, Strings, Organ, Continuo).

(b)

The words of the closing Choral are the fourteenth stanza of David Denicke’s (?) Hymn, “Ich will zu aller Stunde,” first published in the New Ordentlich Gesang-Buch (Hanover, 1646), and set there, as here, to the tune “Von Gott will ich nicht lassen” (see Cantata 11)3 :

  • Herr, gieb das ich dein’ Ehre
  • Ja all’ mein Leben lang
  • Von Herzengrund vermehre,
  • Dir sage Lob und Dank.
  • O Vater, Sohn und Geist!
  • Der du aus lauter Gnaden
  • Abwendest Noth und Schaden,
  • Sei immerdar gepreist.

  • B.G. xxiii. 200.

Form. Extended (Corno da caccia, 2 Fl., 2 Ob. d’amore, Strings, Organ, Continuo).

[1 ] 1630 Thu den nur hertzlich lieben.

[1 ] 1630 Vertraw dich.

[2 ] 1630 fodern.

[3 ] The preceding movements are set to the six stanzas of Heermann’s Hymn. The addition of an alien stanza is irregular.