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Cantata CLXXXVIII.: Ich habe meine Zuversicht 4 . Twenty-first Sunday after Trinity (1730 or 1731) - 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 CLXXXVIII.

Ich habe meine Zuversicht4 . Twenty-first Sunday after Trinity (1730 or 1731)

The melody of the concluding Choral is the anonymous “Auf meinen lieben Gott,” or “Wo soll ich fliehen hin” (see Cantata 5).

The words of the Choral are the first stanza of the Hymn, “Auf meinen lieben Gott,” attributed to Sigismund Weingartner, first published in Geistliche Psalmen, Hymnen, Lieder und Gebet (Nürnberg, 1607).

Of Weingartner nothing certain is known beyond the fact that his name appears as “Sigismund Weingart” in the Index of Authors prefixed to the Geistliche Psalmen (supra). He seems to have been a preacher in or near Heilbronn c. 1600. It is doubtful whether he was the author of the Hymn, whose ascription to him arose from the fact that it stands in the Index immediately under another Hymn to which his initials are attached1 :

  • Auf meinen lieben Gott
  • Trau’ ich in Angst und Noth.
  • Er2 kann mich allzeit retten
  • Aus Trubsal, Angst und Nothen;
  • Mein Ungluck kann er wenden:
  • Steht all’s in seinen Handen.

  • B.G. xxxvii. 212.

Translations of the Hymn into English are noted in the Dictionary of Hymnology, p. 1247.

Form. Simple (Continuo). Choralgesange, No. 253 .

[4 ] Wustmann, p. 298, contests the authenticity of this Cantata and attributes the greater part of it to Bach’s eldest son.

[1 ] Wackernagel, v. 433, prints two versions of the Hymn, dated 1609 and 1611, under the name of Theodor von Someren.

[2 ] 1609 Der.

[3 ] In this Cantata, as in No. 146, Bach makes use of Concerto for Clavier or two Violins (D minor). See also Nos. 49, 110, 169, 174.