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Cantata CLXIV.: Ihr, die ihr euch von Christo nennet. Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity (1723 or 1724) - 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 CLXIV.

Ihr, die ihr euch von Christo nennet. Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity (1723 or 1724)

The words and melody of the concluding Choral are from Elisabethe Cruciger’s Christmas Hymn, “Herr Christ, der einig’ Gott’s Sohn” (see Cantata 22).

The words are the fifth stanza of the Hymn:

  • Ertodt’ uns durch dein’ Gute,
  • Erweck’ uns durch dein’ Gnad’!
  • Den alten Menschen kranke,
  • Dass der neu leben mag,
  • Wohl hier auf dieser Erden
  • Der Sinn und all Begehrden,
  • Nur G’danken2 hab’ zu dir.
  • B.G. xxxiii. 88.

Form. Simple (2 Ob., Strings, Continuo). Choralgesange, No. 127.

In the second movement of the Cantata (B.G. xxxiii. 75), the Bass Recitativo “Wie hören zwar,” Bach gives a brief reference (Arioso) to the melody “O Gott, du frommer Gott” (1693) (see Cantata 24). The words are not a stanza of that Hymn.

[2 ] 1524 Und dancken.