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Cantata CLXVI.: Wo gehest du hin ? Fourth Sunday after Easter (“Cantate”) ( c. 1725) - 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 CLXVI.

Wo gehest du hin? Fourth Sunday after Easter (“Cantate”) (c. 1725)

(a)

For the melody of the third movement, the anonymous “Herr Jesu Christ, du höchstes Gut,” see Cantata 48.

The words of the movement are the third stanza of Bartholomaus Ringwaldt’s Hymn, “Herr Jesu Christ, ich weiss gar wohl,” first published in Handbüchlein: Geistliche Lieder und Gebetlin (Frankfort a. Oder, 1586 [1582], to the tune “Wenn mein Stündlein vorhanden ist.” It is associated in Wagner (1697) with the melody, “Herr Jesu Christ” (supra):

  • Ich bitte1 dich, Herr Jesu Christ,
  • Halt’ mich bei den Gedanken
  • Und lass mich ja zu keiner First
  • Von dieser Meinung wanken.
  • Sondern dabei verharen fest,
  • Bis dass die Seel’ aus ihrem Nest
  • Wird in den Himmel kommen2 .
  • B.G. xxxiii. 113.

Form. Soprano Unison Choral (“Violini e Violain unison, Continuo).

(b)

The melody of the concluding Choral is Georg Neumark’s “Wer nur den lieben Gott lasst walten” (see Cantata 21).

The words are the first stanza of Emilie Juliane Countess of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt’s funerary Hymn, “Wer weiss, wie nahe mir mein Ende” (see Cantata 27):

  • Wer weiss, wie nahe mir mein Ende,
  • Hin geht die Zeit, her kommt der Tod.
  • Ach, wie geschwinde und behende
  • Kann kommen meine Todesnoth!
  • Mein Gott, ich bitt’ durch Christi Blut,
  • Mach’s nur mit meinem Ende gut!
  • B.G. xxxiii. 122.

Form. Simple (Oboe, Strings, Continuo). Choralgesange, No. 372.

[1 ] 1586 So bitt ich.

[2 ] 1586 fahren.