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Cantata CLXXVI.: Es ist ein trotzig und verzagt Ding. Trinity Sunday (? 1735) - 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 CLXXVI.

Es ist ein trotzig und verzagt Ding. Trinity Sunday (? 1735)

For the melody of the concluding Choral, Johann Walther’s(?) “Christ unser Herr zum Jordan kam,” see Cantata 7.

The words of the Choral are the eighth stanza of Paul Gerhardt’s Hymn for Trinity Sunday, “Was alle Weisheit in der Welt,” first published in the 1653 (Berlin) edition of Crüger’s Praxis Pietatis Melica, to the melody, “Christ unser Herr”:

  • Auf dass wir also allzugleich
  • Zur Himmelspforte dringen
  • Und dermaleinst in deinem Reich
  • Ohn’ alles Ende singen:
  • Dass du alleine Konig seist,
  • Hoch uber alle Götter,
  • Gott Vater, Sohn und heil’ger Geist,
  • Der Frommen Schutz und Retter.
  • Ein Wesen, drei Personen.
  • B.G. xxxv. 198.

Translations of the Hymn into English are noted in the Dictionary of Hymnology, p. 411.

Form. Simple (2 Ob., Oboe da caccia, Strings, Continuo). Choralgesänge, No. 45.