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Cantata CVIII.: Es ist euch gut, dass ich hingehe. Fourth Sunday after Easter (“Cantate”) (? 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 CVIII.

Es ist euch gut, dass ich hingehe. Fourth Sunday after Easter (“Cantate”) (? 1735)

The melody of the concluding Choral is the anonymous “Kommt her zu mir, spricht Gottes Sohn” (see Cantata 74).

The words of the Choral are the tenth stanza of Paul Gerhardt’s Hymn, “Gott Vater, sende deinen Geist” (see Cantata 74). The stanza appeared first in a new version of the Hymn in Gerhardt’s Geistliche Andachten (Berlin, 1667):

  • Dein Geist, den Gott vom Himmel giebt,
  • Der leitet Alles, was ihn liebt,
  • Auf wohlgebahnten Wegen.
  • Er setzt und richtet unsern Fuss,
  • Dass er nicht anders treten muss,
  • Als wo man find’t den Segen.
  • B.G. xxiii. 230.

Form. Simple (2 Ob. d’amore, Strings, Continuo). Choralgesange, No. 224.