Bach digital - Du sollt Gott, deinen Herren, lieben BWV 77

Genre: Sacred cantata
Designation of a cantata: 13th Sunday after Trinity
Scoring: [S*, A*, T*, B*, S, A, T, B,] Tr da tir [, Ob I/II, Vl I/II, Va, Bc]

Date of origin: vor dem 22. August 1723
Early performances: 22 August 1723, Leipzig (Premiere) (Link to event)
relation to other works:: is part of BWV diverse [1. Jg.]
relation from other works:: is adapted in BWV 77/6 ChS
Comment: movement 6: no text or incipit in original score. Non-autograph text supplement probably by J.C.F. Bach (not by C. F. Zelter). Presumably the son copied the text of the original parts. Lit.: P. Wollny, in: BJ 2001, p. 62.

Libretto: Johann Oswald Knauer (Gotha 1720, edited); mvt. 1: Luke 10:27; final chorale (melody: ‚Ach Gott, vom Himmel sieh darein‘): stanza 8 from ‘Wenn einer alle Ding verstünd’ by David Denicke (1657) (inscribed by J.C.F. Bach)
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