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Cantata CLXXII.: Erschallet, ihr Lieder. Whit Sunday (1724 or 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 CLXXII.

Erschallet, ihr Lieder. Whit Sunday (1724 or 1725)

The words and melody of the concluding Choral are Philipp Nicolai’s Hymn, “Wie schon leuchtet der Morgenstern” (see Cantata 1).

The words are the fourth stanza of the Hymn:

  • Von Gott kommt mir ein Freudenschein,
  • Wenn du mit deinen Augelein
  • Mich freundlich thust anblicken.
  • O Herr Jesu, mein trautes Gut,
  • Dein Wort, dein Geist, dein Leib und Blut
  • Mich innerlich erquicken.
  • Nimm mich freundlich
  • In dein’ Arme, das ich warme
  • Werd’ von Gnaden:
  • Auf dein Wort komm’ ich geladen
  • B.G. xxxv. 69.

Form. Embellished (Fagotto, Strings, Continuo). Choralgesänge, No. 376.

In the fifth movement of the Cantata (B.G. xxxv. 62), the Soprano-Alto Duetto, “Komm, lass’ mich nicht länger warten,” the Violin obbligato is a very free treatment of the Whitsuntide melody, “Komm, heiliger Geist, Herre Gott” (see Cantata 59), in an abridged form.