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Cantata CXCV.: Dem Gerechten muss das Licht 1 . For a Wedding (? c. 1726 2 ) - 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 CXCV.

Dem Gerechten muss das Licht1 . For a Wedding (? c. 17262 )

The melody of the concluding Choral is Nicolaus Herman’s “Lobt Gott, ihr Christen alle gleich” (see Cantata 151).

The words of the Choral are the first stanza of Paul Gerhardt’s Hymn of Thanksgiving, “Nun danket all’ und bringet Ehr’,” first published, to Herman’s tune (supra), in the 1647 (Berlin) edition of Crüger’s Praxis Pietatis Melica:

  • Nun danket all’ und bringet Ehr’,
  • Ihr Menschen in der Welt,
  • Dem, dessen Lob der Engel Heer
  • Im Himmel stets vermeldt3 .
  • B.G. xiii. (i) 70.

Form. Embellished (2 Corni, Timp., 2 Fl., 2 Ob., Strings, Continuo). Choralgesange, No. 236.

[1 ] An English version of the Cantata, “For the righteous the light hath awakened,” is published by Breitkopf & Haertel.

[2 ] See Spitta, ii. 468.

[3 ] Only the first line is printed in the Score.