Melody & Text | Use of the CM by Bach | Use of the CM by other composers

Melody & Text: Zahn: 5970 | EKG:

Text:

Ulrich Bogislaus von Bonin, 1727.

Melody:

Anonymous, 1698, originally attached to CT: „Entfernet euch, ihr matten Kräfte“.

Use of the Chorale Melody by Bach:

Text: Beglückter Stand getreuer Seelen | EKG:
Author: Ulrich Bogislaus von Bonin (1727)

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Work

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Score

Music Examples

1-8

BWV 442

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1736

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F257

From the Schemelli „Gesangbuch“ (No. 570), Leipzig, 1736.
The evidence shows that J. S Bach had very little, if anything at all, to do with this chorale setting.

Use of the Chorale Melody by other composers:

Not known.

Sources: NBA, vols. III/2.1 & 2.2 in particular [Bärenreiter, 1954 to present] and the BWV ("Bach Werke Verzeichnis") [Breitkopf & Härtel, 1998]
The PDF files of the Chorales were contributed by Margaret Greentree J.S. Bach Chorales
Software: Capella 2004 Software, version 5.1.
Prepared by Thomas Braatz & Aryeh Oron (June 2006)