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Cantata CXXIX.: Gelobet sei der Herr. Trinity Sunday (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 CXXIX.

Gelobet sei der Herr. Trinity Sunday (1732)

A Choral Cantata, on Johannes Olearius’ Hymn for Trinity Sunday, “Gelobet sei der Herr,” founded on the Gospel for the Day. The Hymn was first published in Olearius’ Christliche Bet-Schule (Leipzig, 1665), to the tune, “Nun danket alle Gott1 .” Bach sets it here to the anonymous (1679) “O Gott, du frommer Gott” (see Cantata 45). In Wagner (1697) the Hymn is set to “Nun danket alle Gott.”

(a)

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

  • Gelobet sei der Herr,
  • Mein Gott, mein Licht, mein Leben,
  • Mein Schöpfer, der mir hat
  • Mein’n Leib und Seel’ gegeben;
  • Mein Vater, der mich schutzt
  • Von Mutterleibe an,
  • Der alle Augenblick’
  • Viel Gut’s an mir gethan.

  • B.G. xxvi. 187.

Translations of the Hymn into English are noted in the Dictionary of Hymnology, p. 866.

Form. Choral Fantasia (3 Trombe, Timpani, 2 Ob., Strings, Continuo).

(b)

The words of the concluding Choral are the fifth stanza of Olearius’ Hymn:

  • Dem wir das Heilig itzt
  • Mit Freuden lassen klingen,
  • Und mit der Engelschaar
  • Das Heilig, Heilig singen;
  • Den herzlich lobt und preist
  • Die ganze Christenheit:
  • Gelobet sei mein Gott
  • In alle Ewigkeit!

  • B.G. xxvi. 224.

Form. Extended (3 Trombe, Timpani, Flauto, 2 Ob., Strings, Continuo).

[1 ] Every movement of the Cantata is a stanza of the Hymn.