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Cantata CXXXVI.: Erforsche mich, Gott, und erfahre mein Herz. Eighth Sunday after Trinity ( c. 1725 1 ) - 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 CXXXVI.

Erforsche mich, Gott, und erfahre mein Herz. Eighth Sunday after Trinity (c. 17251 )

The melody which Bach uses in the concluding Choral of the Cantata is known both as “Auf meinen lieben Gott” and “Wo soll ich fliehen hin” (see Cantata 5).

The words of the Choral are the ninth stanza of Johann Heermann’s Lenten Hymn, “Wo soll ich fliehen hin” (see Cantata 5):

  • Dein Blut, der edle Saft,
  • Hat solche Stark’ und Kraft,
  • Dass auch ein Tropflein kleine
  • Die ganze Welt kann reine,
  • Ja, gar aus Teufels Rachen
  • Frei, los und ledig2 machen.
  • B.G. xxviii. 164.

Form. Embellished (Corno, 2 Ob., Strings, Continuo). Choralgesange, No. 27.

[1 ] Rust suggests the second Leipzig period.

[2 ] 1630 selig.