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I.: Ehre sei Gott in der Hohe 2 . Christmas Day (? 1728) - 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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I.

Ehre sei Gott in der Hohe2 . Christmas Day (? 1728)

The melody of the concluding Choral is the 1679 tune, “O Gott, du frommer Gott,” or “Die Wollust dieser Welt” (see Cantata 45).

The words of the Choral are the fourth stanza of Caspar Ziegler’s Christmas Hymn, “Ich freue mich in dir” (see Cantata 133):

  • Wohlan! so will ich mich
  • An dich, O Jesu, halten,
  • Und sollte gleich die Welt
  • In tausend Stucken spalten.
  • O Jesu, dir, nur dir,
  • Dir leb’ ich ganz allein,
  • Auf dich, allein auf dich,
  • Mein Jesu, schlaf’ ich ein.
  • B.G. xli. 114.

Form. Simple3 . Choralgesänge, No. 277.

[2 ] The Cantata consists of two Arias (one incomplete), a Recitativo, and the final Choral. The work is incorporated into the Wedding Cantata, No. 197.

[3 ] The orchestration is not stated in the Score.