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Cantata CXXXVII.: Lobe den Herren, den machtigen König der Ehren. Twelfth Sunday after Trinity (? 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 CXXXVII.

Lobe den Herren, den machtigen König der Ehren. Twelfth Sunday after Trinity (? 1732 )

A Choral Cantata, on Joachim Neander’s Hymn of Thanksgiving, “Lobe den Herren,” first published in his Glaub- und Liebesubung (Bremen, 1680).

Neander was born at Bremen in 1650. In 1674 he was appointed Rector of the Latin School at Dusseldorf, and five years later (1679) returned to Bremen as unordained assistant in the Church of St Martin. He died in 1680.

For the melody, “Hast du denn, Liebster,” which Bach uses throughout the Cantata, see Cantata 57.

(a)

  • Verse I.

  • * Lobe den Herren, den machtigen König der Ehren,
  • Meine geliebte Seele, das ist mein Begeliren.
  • Kommet zu Hauf,
  • Psalter und Harfen, wacht auf!
  • Lasset die Musicam horen.

  • B.G. xxviii. 167.

Translations of the Hymn into English are noted in the Dictionary of Hymnology, pp. 683, 1665.

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

(b)

  • Verse II1 .

  • * Lobe den Herren, der Alles so herrlich regieret,
  • Der dich auf Adelers Fitigen sicher geführet,
  • Der dich erhalt,
  • Wie es dir selber gefallt;
  • Hast du nicht dieses verspuret?

  • B.G. xxviii. 186.

Form. Unison Choral for Alto. The cantus is treated freely (Violino Solo, Continuo2 ).

(c)

  • Verse IV.

  • * Lobe den Herren, der deinen Stand sichtbar gesegnet,
  • Der aus dem Himmel mit Stromen der Liebe geregnet!
  • Denke d’ran,
  • Was der Allmachtige kann,
  • Der dir mit Liebe begegnet.

  • B.G. xxviii. 193.

Form. Tenor Aria, the cantus being in the Tromba obbligato (Tromba, Continuo).

(d)

  • Verse V.

  • * Lobe den Herren; was in mir ist, lobe den Namen!
  • Alles was Odem hat, lobe mit Abraham’s Samen!
  • Er ist dein Licht.
  • Seele, vergiss es ja nicht!
  • Lobende schliesse mit Amen!

  • B.G. xxviii. 196.

Form. Embellished (3 Trombe, Timp., 2 Ob., Strings, Continuo). Choralgesange, No. 230.

[1 ] Verse iii in the third movement is not set to the Choral melody.

[2 ] The movement is No. 6 of the Schubler Chorals (N. xvi. 14).