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Cantata CXVI.: Du Friedefürst, Herr Jesu Christ 1 . Twenty-fifth Sunday after Trinity (1744) - 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 CXVI.

Du Friedefürst, Herr Jesu Christ1 . Twenty-fifth Sunday after Trinity (1744)

A Choral Cantata, on Jakob Ebert’s Hymn, “Du Friedefürst, Herr Jesu Christ” (see Cantata 67).

For Bartholomäus Gesius’ melody, see Cantata 67.

(a)

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

  • Du Friedefurst, Herr Jesu Christ,
  • Wahr’r Mensch und wahrer Gott,
  • Ein starker Nothhelfer du bist
  • Im Leben und im Tod.
  • Drum wir allein
  • Im Namen dein
  • Zu deinem Vater schreien.
  • B.G. xxiv. 135.

Form. Choral Fantasia (Corno, 2 Ob. d’amore, Strings, Continuo).

(b)

The words of the concluding Choral are the seventh stanza of Ebert’s Hymn:

  • Erleucht’ auch2 unsern Sinn und Herz
  • Durch den Geist deiner Gnad’,
  • Dass wir nicht treiben draus ein’n Scherz,
  • Der unsrer Seele schad’t.
  • O Jesu Christ,
  • Allein du bist,
  • Der Solch’s wohl kann ausrichten.
  • B.G. xxiv. 158.

Form. Simple (Corno, 2 Ob. d’amore, Strings, Continuo). Choralgesänge, No. 69.

[1 ] An English version of the Cantata, “O Jesu Christ, Thou Prince of Peace,” is published by Novello & Co.

[2 ] 1601 doch.