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III.: Herr Gott, Beherrscher aller Dinge. For a Wedding 1 (before 1733) - 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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Herr Gott, Beherrscher aller Dinge. For a Wedding1 (before 1733)

The words and melody of the concluding Choral are Joachim Neander’s Hymn of Thanksgiving, “Lobe den Herren, den mächtigen König der Ehren” (see Cantatas 57, 137).

The words are the fourth and fifth stanzas of the Hymn:

    • * Lobe den Herren, der deinen Stand sichtbar gesegnet,
    • Der aus dem Himmel mit Stromen der Liebe geregnet!
    • Denke daran,
    • Was der Allmachtige kann,
    • Der dir mit Liebe begegnet.
    • * Lobe den Herren, was in mir ist, lobe den Namen!
    • Alles, was Odem hat, lobe mit Abrahams Samen.
    • Er ist dein Licht,
    • Seele, vergiss es ja nicht;
    • Lobende, schliesse mit Amen!
    • B.G. xli. 174.

Form. Embellished (3 Trombe, Timpani, 2 Ob., Strings, Continuo). Choralgesange, No. 230.

THE CANTATAS OF DOUBTFUL AUTHENTICITY1

[1 ] All instrumental parts except the Viola and Continuo parts are lacking. (See No. 137.) The Cantata is founded, in part, on No. 120 (Spitta, ii. 469).

[1 ] B.G. xli contains four Cantatas of doubtful authenticity. The first of them, “Gedenke, Herr, wie es uns gehet,” Spitta, ii. 695, does not regard as being by Bach. It appears to have been written for a Public Fast and contains no Chorals.