Bach digital - Lobe den Herrn, meine Seele BWV 69.1

Twelfth Sunday after Trinity, Cantata Cycle I (1723/1724)

Genre: Sacred cantata
Proper: Psalm: Psalm 34
Epistel: 2. Korinther 3, 4-11
Gospel: Markus 7, 31-37
Scoring: S*, A*, T*, B*, S, A, T, B; 3 Tr, Timp, Fl dolce, 3 Ob, Ob d’am, Ob da cac, Bs, 2 Vl, Va, Bc

Date of origin, Work history: vor dem 15. August 1723
Movement 6 is borrowed from BWV 12/7 (without obligatory parts). About 1727 the cantata was performed again (s. mvt. 3, original parts).
Early performances: 15 August 1723, Leipzig (Premiere) (Link to event)
31 August 1727, Leipzig (Link to event)
relation to other works:: is part of BWV diverse [1. Jg.]
relation from other works:: is adapted in BWV 69.1/6 ChS
has revision BWV 69.2
Comment: Probably on the occasion of inauguration of the new city council in 1748 the cantata was rearranged to the cantata of the same title BWV 69. The movements 1, 3 and 5 of both cantatas are almost the same.
: Introduction to the work
Link to videos:: Lobe den Herrn, meine Seele, BWV 69.1 (Netherlands Bach Society)

Libretto: Knauer (1720, edited); mvt. 1: Psalm 103:2; mvt. 6: stanza 6 from ‘Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan’ by Samuel Rodigast (1674)
Link to lyrics

Original sources: D-B Mus.ms. Bach St 68 [Part(s)]
Verschollen BWV 69a, Originalstimmen (1723) [Part(s)]
Additional sources: Verschollen Choralsammlung [Score]
D-Gs 8 P GERM III, 746 [Textdruck] [Libretto]

Edition

NBA I/20, S. 117 (Klaus Hofmann, 1986) – Critical report (1985), S. 109;

BG 16, S.373 (W. Rust, 1868. Nur Satz 2, 4 u. 6 als Ergänzung zu BWV 69.2)

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