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Cantata CLV.: Mein Gott, wie lang’, ach lange. Second Sunday after the Epiphany (1715) - 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 CLV.

Mein Gott, wie lang’, ach lange. Second Sunday after the Epiphany (1715)

The words and melody of the concluding Choral are those of Paul Speratus’ Hymn, “Es ist das Heil uns kommen her” (see Cantata 9).

The words are the twelfth stanza of the Hymn:

  • Ob sich’s anliess’, als wollt’ er nicht,
  • Lass dich es nicht erschrecken;
  • Denn wo er ist am besten mit,
  • Da will er’s nicht entdecken;
  • Sein Wort lass dir1 gewisser sein,
  • Und ob dein Herz2 sprach’ lauter Nein;
  • So lass doch dir nicht grauen.
  • B.G. xxxii. 96.

Form. Simple (Strings, Continuo). Choralgesange, No. 88.

[1 ] 1524 das las dir.

[2 ] 1524 fleisch.