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II.: Gott der Hoffnung erfulle euch 2 . Whit Sunday - 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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Gott der Hoffnung erfulle euch2 . Whit Sunday

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Melody:Komm, Gott Schopfer, heiliger Geist

Anon. 1524

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Melody:Komm, Gott Schopfer, heiliger Geist

Anon. 1535

The words and melody of the concluding Choral are from Luther’s Hymn, “Komm, Gott Schopfer,” a translation of the “Veni Creator Spiritus,” first published, with the melody, in the Erfurt Enchiridion Oder eyn Handbuchlein (Erfurt, 1524) and in Klug’s Geistliche Lieder (Wittenberg, 1535 [1529]). The melody is that of the Latin Hymn.

The melody does not occur elsewhere in the Cantatas, Oratorios, or Motetts. There is another harmonisation of it in the Choralgesange, No. 218. Organ Works, N. xv. 97; xvii. 82.

The words of the Choral are the first stanza of Luther’s Hymn:

  • Komm, Gott Schöpfer, heiliger Geist,
  • Besuch’ das Herz der Menschen dein,
  • Mit Gnaden sie full’, wie du weisst,
  • Das dein’ Geschopf’ vorhin sein.
  • B.G. xli. 238.

Translations of the Hymn into English are noted in the Dictionary of Hymnology, p. 1209.

Form. Embellished (2 Corni, Strings, Continuo). Choralgesange, No. 219.

[2 ] Spitta, ii. 683, holds that the Cantata is not by Bach.