• Es ist das Heil uns kommen her
 BWV 9; BC A 107 GND

Sixth Sunday after Trinity, Choral Cantatas copmposed at a later stage
Other catalogues
  • BR-WFB N 140
Genre
  • Chorale cantata
Proper
Psalm: Psalm 33
Epistel: Römer 6, 3-11
Gospel: Matthäus 5, 20-26
Scoring
  • Sopran solo, Alt solo, Tenor solo, Bass solo, Sopran, Alt Tenor, Bass, Flauto traverso, Oboe d'amore, Violine I, Violine II, Viola, Basso continuo
Date of origin, Work history
  • 1. August 1734 (Schreiber Gottfried Theodor Krauß, siehe Wollny BJ 2015)

  • Date of composition August 1, 1734 (Scribe Gottfried Theodor Krauß, see Wollny BJ 2015); shortened subsequent performance likely on July 8, 1736 (script forms, copyist Rudolph Straube); subsequent performance around 1740–1747 (autograph addition in basso continuo part (transposed/figured)); further performance around 1759 by Wilhelm Friedemann Bach in Halle (performance materials)
Early performances
, Leipzig, St. Thomas Church (Link to event)
Predigt: Christian Weise d. Ä.
WA wahrscheinlich 8. Juli 1736; WA 1740 —1747; WA um 1759 durch WFB in Halle
relation to other works:
is part of BWV diverse [Jg. 2b]
relation from other works
is adapted in BWV 9/7 ChSBC F 59.2a/b
Comment
  • In der autographen Partitur vollständiger Entwurf zu Satz 6 (NBA Suppl., Seite 176‒179, P. Wollny, 2011).
Link to videos:
Es ist das Heil uns kommen her, BWV 9 (J. S. Bach Stiftung St. Gallen)
Author Libretto
unknown author
Libretto
  • Paul Speratus (1524), stanzas 1 and 12 literally preserved, stanzas 2–11 (sentence 2–6) reworked (author unknown)

Link to lyrics
Author Chorale
Speratus, Paul (1484-1551)
Chorale
  • Satz 1 und 6:
    Paul Speratus, "Es ist das Heil uns kommen her", 1523, Strophen 1 und 12
in: P. Speratus, Etlich Cristlich lider, 1524
Original sources
A-Wgm A 90 [Part(s)]
D-LEb Thomana 9 (Depositum im Bach-Archiv) [Part(s)]
US-NYpm B 1184. E75 (Cary 3) [Part(s)]
US-NYpm B 1184. E753 [Morgan Collection, BWV 9] [Part(s)]
US-Wc ML96 .B186 Case BWV 9 [Score, Sketch]
[Kantate BWV 9: Es ist das Heil uns kommen her] Originalstimmensatz [Part(s)]
Additional sources
A-Wgm A 93 [Part(s)]
B-Bc 25924 MSM [Part(s)]
B-Br Ms II 4950 Mus [Score]
D-B Mus.ms. Bach P 1159/X, Faszikel 7 [Score]
D-B Mus.ms. Bach P 1217 [Score]
D-B Mus.ms. Bach P 199 [Score]
D-B Mus.ms. Bach P 46, Faszikel 6 [Score]
D-B Mus.ms. Bach St 357 [Part(s)]
D-B Mus.ms. Bach St 645 [vocal score / piano reduction]
D-Eib A. A. 2 [Part(s)]
D-KÖ L 163,9a [Part(s)]
D-KÖ L 163,9b [Part(s)]
PL-Wu RM 5912 [Konvolut] [Score]
PL-Wu RM 5912, Faszikel 4 [Score]
US-CAh pfMS Mus 62 [Part(s)]
Unbekannter Privatbesitz (US-New York), BWV 9 (Partitur) [Score]
Verschollen BWV 9 (1), W. Rust [Score]
Verschollen BWV 9 (2), L. Liepmannssohn [Score]
Verschollen Choralsammlung [Score]
Verschollen Sing-Akademie BWV 9, Partitur [Score]
[Kantate BWV 9: Es ist das Heil uns kommen her] Stimmensatz W. F. Bach [Part(s)]
Edition
NBA I/17.2, S. 83 (Reinmar Emans, 1993);
BG 1, S. 245 (M. Hauptmann, 1851)
Literature
  • Wollny BJ 2015

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