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Details
Choralkantate:
Wachet auf ruft uns die Stimme (BWV 140).
27. Sonntag nach Trinitatis.
25. November 1731, Leipzig, Nikolaikirche (Erstaufführung).
Textdichter Choral:
Philipp Nicolai (1556-1608)
Quelle: P. Nicolai: Freudenspiegel des ewigen Lebens, Frankfurt (Main) 1599, p. 412.
Textdichter Kantate:
Satz 1, 4 und 7: Philipp Nicolai (1599), Strophen 1–3.
Satz 2–3 und 5–6 freie Dichtung (Verfasser unbekannt).
Hymnological Dossier
This Hymnological Dossier (PDF) contains the text of the song, along with Johann Martin Schamelius’ explanation, from Evangelischer Lieder-Commentarius I, 1724, S. 796. The text of each part of Bach’s chorale cantata is immediately next to the relevant stanza of the song in each case.
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Chorale
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External links
- Information about this song on Hymnary.org
- Information and sources of this cantata on Bach-digital.de
- Information about this cantata text on Bachcantatatexts.org
