Johann Sebastian Bach: His Life, Art, and WorkForkel, Johann Nikolaus
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Johann Sebastian Bach: His Life, Art, and Work
Forkel, Johann Nikolaus
Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750; Composers -- Germany -- Biography
393 For instance, the Aria in Cantata No. 168, beginning:
Kapital und Interessen Meiner Schulden gross und klein,
Mussen einst verrechnet sein.
394 Spitta, ii. 5; Schweitzer, i. 106.
395 Spitta, ii. 3.
396 The two Cantatas are Nos. 47 and 141.
397 Wustmann, p. xxiii.
398 Spitta, ii. 12 n.
399 The Choral is absent from No. 141. It should be “Christe, du Lamm
Gotten.”
400 Schweitzer, ii. 147. The Cantata is No. 47, _Wer sich selbst
erhöhet._
401 Vol. ii. 13.
402 Vol. ii. 147.
403 No. 141: _Das ist je gewisslich wahr._
404 Vol. ii. 15.
405 Vol. ii. 148.
_ 406 Johann Sebastian Bach,_ p. 108.
407 Op. cit., Note 195.
408 Spitta, ii. 147.
409 Nos. 134 and 173.
410 No. 134: _Ein Herz, das seinen Jesum lebend weiss._
411 No. 173: _Erhötes Fleisch und Blut._
412 No. 75: _Die Elenden sollen essen,_ sung on May 30, the day
preceding Bach’s formal induction.
413 For instance, Nos. 67 and 102.
414 Wustmann, by implication, only associates eight libretti (Cantatas
Nos. 37, 44, 75, 76, 86, 104, 166, 179) with Weiss. All of them
belong to the early years, 1723-27.
415 See Nos. 75 and 105.
416 See Nos. 25, 42, 77. As an extreme illustration, the first
Recitative of No. 25 begins with the words, _Die ganze Welt ist nur
ein Hospital._
417 Vol. ii. 388.
418 Cantata No. 65: _Sie werden aus Saba Alle kommen._
419 Vol. i. 361.
420 Wustmann, p. xxiv.
421 Ibid.
422 See the Table.
423 They ore Nos. 6, 17, 22, 43, 48, 57, 144, 148, 157, 159,171,
190,195, and the incomplete Cantata, _Ehre sei Gott in der Höhe._
424 Nos. 16, 23, 63, 81, 83, 153, 154, 184, 194. See the Table.
425 No. 4: _Christ lag in Todesbanden._
426 Vol. ii. 393.
427 See the Table: No. 112, _Derr herr ist mein getreuer Hirt._
428 Nos. 8, 20, 93.
429 No. 148: _Bringet dem Herrn Ehre seines Namens._
430 No. 8: _Liebster Gott, wann werd’ ich sterben._
431 No. 181: _Leichtgesinnte Flattergeister._
432 Vol. ii. 340 ff.
433 The volume is entitled _Sammlung Erbaulicher Gedancken, Bey und über
gewohnlichen Sonn- und Festtags-Evangelien,_ Leipzig.
_ 434 Cantaten auf die Sonn- und Fest-Tage durch das gantze Jahr,_
Leipzig, 1728. He reprinted them in 1732 in his _Satyrische
Gedichte._
435 But see Cantata No. 148 and Spitta, ii. 693. Also No. 19.
436 Cantatas Nos. 145, 156, 159, 171, 174, 188, 190 (one version), and
the Cantata _Ehre sei Gott._
437 No. 157.
438 Nos. 19, 30, 36, 84, 148, 197.
439 Vol. ii. 346.
440 Nos. 32, 48, 67, 90, 144, 181.
441 Nos. 16, 22, 23, 27, 35, 51, 56, 58, 63, 66, 81, 82, 83, 153, 154,
194, 195. No. 184 is an adaptation. See also Nos. 19, 36, 84, 144,
145, 148, for Bach’s collaboration with Picander.
442 Besides No. 80, a Choral Cantata.
443 Schweitzer, ii. 332 ff.
444 Entitled _Versuch in gebundener Schreibart._
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