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Cantata CLXXIX.: Siehe zu, dass deine Gottesfurcht nicht Heuchelei sei. Eleventh Sunday after Trinity (? 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 CLXXIX.

Siehe zu, dass deine Gottesfurcht nicht Heuchelei sei. Eleventh Sunday after Trinity (? 1724)

For the melody of the concluding Choral, Georg Neumark’s “Wer nur den lieben Gott lässt walten,” see Cantata 21.

The words of the Choral are the first stanza of Christoph Tietze’s (Titius) Hymn, “Ich armer Mensch, ich armer Sünder,” first published in his Sunden-Schmertzen, Trost im Hertzen, Todten Kertzen (Nürnberg, 1663).

Tietze was born at Wilkau in 1641, became Deacon and Archdeacon at Hersbruck, near Nurnberg, and died there in 1703. Before the date of this Cantata Tietze’s Hymn was usually sung to the tune “Wohl dem, der weit von hohen Dingen,” to which it was published. It is set to Neumark’s tune in the Praxis of 1709 and in the Unverfalschter Lieder-Segen of 1878:

  • Ich armer Mensch, ich armer Sunder
  • Steh’ hier vor Gottes Angesicht.
  • Ach Gott, ach Gott, verfahr’ gelinder
  • Und geh’ nicht mit mir in’s1 Gericht.
  • Erbarme dich, erbarme dich,
  • Gott mein Erbarmer, uber mich!
  • B.G. xxxv. 292.

Form. Simple (2 Ob., Strings, Continuo). Choralgesange, No. 371.

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