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Cantata CXCIX.: Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut. Eleventh Sunday after Trinity ( c. 1714 1 ) - 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 CXCIX.

Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut. Eleventh Sunday after Trinity (c. 17141 )

The melody of the sixth movement is Caspar Stieler’s (?) “Wo soll ich fliehen hin” (see Cantata 163).

The words of the Choral are the third stanza of Johann Heermann’s Hymn, “Wo soll ich fliehen hin” (see Cantata 5):

  • Ich Dein betrubtes Kind
  • Werf alle meine Sund,
  • So viel ihr in mir stekken
  • Und mich so heftig schrecken,
  • In Deine tiefen Wunden,
  • Da ich stets Heil gefunden.
  • N.B.G. xiii. (ii) 17.

Form. Soprano Unison Choral (Viola obbligato, Continuo [con Violone]).

THE UNFINISHED CANTATAS1

[1 ] The occasion for which the Cantata was composed is not stated in the Score. Wustmann, p. 156, assigns it to this Sunday because Neumeister wrote a text for the Eleventh Sunday after Trinity bearing the same title.

[1 ] In B.G. xli there are two sets of unfinished Cantatas: (1) “Nun danket alle Gott” (No. 192), “Ihr Pforten zu Zion” (No. 193), “Ehre sei Gott in der Hohe” (here distinguished as U 1); (2) “O ewiges Feuer, O Ursprung der Liebe” (here distinguished as U 2), “Herr Gott, Beherrscher aller Dinge” (here distinguished as U 3).