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III.: Siehe, es hat überwunden der Lowe. Feast of St Michael the Archangel - 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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Siehe, es hat überwunden der Lowe. Feast of St Michael the Archangel

For the melody of the concluding Choral, the anonymous “Wo Gott der Herr nicht bei uns hält,” see Cantata 73.

The words of the Choral are the ninth and tenth stanzas of Justus Gesenius’ (?) Hymn “für den Schutz der Heil. Engel,” “O Gott, der du aus Herzensgrund,” first published, to the melody “Wo Gott der Herr” (supra), in the New Ordentlich Gesang-Buch (Hanover, 1646).

Gesenius was born at Esbeck, in Hanover, in 1601. In 1636 he became Court preacher and chaplain at the Cathedral in Hildesheim and in 1642 was appointed chief Court preacher and General Superintendent of Hanover. With David Denicke he edited the Hanoverian Hymn books of 1646-59. He died in 1673:

    • Lass’ deine Kirch’ und unser Land
    • Der Engel Schutz empfinden,
    • Dass Fried’ und Freud’1 in allem Stand
    • Ein Jeder2 moge finden;
    • Lass sie des Teufels Mord und List,
    • Und was sein Reich und Anhang ist,
    • Durch deine Kraft zerstoren.
    • Zuletzt lass sie an unserm End’
    • Den Satan3 von uns jagen,
    • Und unsre Seel’ in deine Hand’
    • Und Abrahams Schooss tragen,
    • Da alles Heer dein Lob erklingt
    • Und Heilig! Heilig! Heilig! singt
    • Ohn’ einiges Aufhoren.

    • B.G. xli. 258.

Form. Embellished (2 Trombe). Choralgesange, No. 387.

[1 ] 1646 Heyl.

[2 ] 1646 Sich bey uns.

[3 ] 1646 Bösswicht.