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Cantata CLXV.: O heil’ges Geist- und Wasserbad. Trinity Sunday (? 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 CLXV.

O heil’ges Geist- und Wasserbad. Trinity Sunday (? 1724)

The words and melody of the concluding Choral are from Ludwig Helmbold’s Hymn, “Nun lasst uns Gott dem Herren” (see Cantata 79).

The words are the fifth stanza of the Hymn:

  • Sein Wort, sein’ Taufe, sein Nachtmahl
  • Dient wider allen Unfall:
  • Der heil’ge Geist im Glauben
  • Lehrt uns darauf vertrauen.
  • B.G. xxxiii. 104.

Form. Simple (Fagotto, Strings, Continuo). Choralgesänge, No. 266.