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Cantata CLXXXVII.: Es wartet Alles auf dich. Seventh Sunday after Trinity (1732) - 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 CLXXXVII.

Es wartet Alles auf dich. Seventh Sunday after Trinity (1732)

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Melody: “Da Christus geboren war”

Anon. 1544

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Melody: “Singen wir aus Herzensgrund”

Anon. 1589

The melody of the concluding Choral is found first in the Gesangbuch der Bruder inn Behemen und Merherrn (Nürnberg, 1544), where it is set to Johann Roh’s (Horn, Cornu) version of the Latin Christmas Hymn, “In natali Domini.” It may be inferred that the melody is adapted from the tune of that Hymn, which probably is of the fourteenth or fifteenth century.

The melody does not occur elsewhere in the Cantatas, Oratorios, or Motetts.

The tune practically had assumed the form in which Bach uses it before the end of the sixteenth century.

The words of the concluding Choral are the fourth and sixth stanzas of the anonymous Hymn, or Grace after Meat, “Singen wir aus Herzensgrund.” It appeared first as a broadsheet c. 1560 and later in Hundert Christenliche Haussgesang (Nürnberg, 1569) and in Johann Eichorn’s Geistliche Lieder (Frankfort a. Oder, 1569). In the 1589 edition of the latter Hymn book the Hymn is associated with the tune “Da Christus geboren war”:

  • Gott hat die Erd’ schon zugericht’t1 ,
  • Lasst’s an Nahrung mangeln nicht;
  • Berg und Thal, die macht er nass,
  • Dass dem Vieh auch wachst sein Gras;
  • Aus der Erden Wein und Brod
  • Schaffet Gott, und giebt’s uns satt,
  • Dass der Mensch sein Leben hat
  • Wir danken sehr und bitten ihn2 ,
  • Dass er uns geb’3 des Geistes Sinn,
  • Dass wir solches recht versteh’n,
  • Stets nach sein’n Geboten geh’n,
  • Seinen Namen machen gross
  • In Christo ohn’ Unterlass:
  • So sing’n wir das Gratias.

  • B.G. xxxvii. 191.

A translation of the Hymn is noted in the Dictionary of Hymnology, p. 1060.

Form. Simple (2 Ob., Strings, Continuo). Choralgesänge, No. 308.

[1 ] 1569 Erden zugericht.

[2 ] 1569 Dancken wir sehr, bitten in.

[3 ] 1569 Das er geb.