• Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott [2nd Leipzig version]

BWV 80.3; BWV 80; BC A 183b

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Other catalogues

• BR-WFB N 162

Genre

• Chorale cantata

Proper

Psalm: Psalm 46?
Epistel: Offenbarung 14, 6-7
Gospel: Matthäus 11, 12-15

Scoring

• Sopran solo, Alt solo, Tenor solo, Bass solo, Sopran, Alt, Tenor, Bass, Oboe I, Oboe II, Oboe III, Oboe d'amore I, Oboe d'amore II, Oboe da caccia, Taille, Violine I, Violine II, Viola, Basso continuo

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Date of origin, Work history

• Date of composition unknown (perhaps 1739 for the 200th anniversary of the introduction of the Reformation in Leipzig). Subsequent performance (movements 1 and 5) around 1761–1763 by Wilhelm Friedemann Bach in Halle (with Latin text setting and additional Tromba I–III, Timpani)

relation to other works:

is part of BWV diverse [o.Jg.]

relation from other works:

is adapted in BWV 80/8 ChSBC F 53.4a/b

Comment

• about setting: very probably trumpets and timpani were added later by W. F. Bach

Introduction to the work

Link to videos:

Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott, BWV 80.3 (J. S. Bachstiftung St. Gallen)

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Author Libretto

Franck, Salomon (1659–1725)

Libretto

• BWV 80.3: Martin Luther (1529), four stanzas in movement 1, 5, and 8 (stanzas 1, 3-4) as well as within movement 2 (stanza 2) kept literally, supplemented by slightly modified text from Franck 1715 (see BWV 80.1, movement 2-4, 6 and 7)

Link to lyrics

Chorale

Satz 6: Martin Luther, "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott", 1529, Strophe 2

in: Luther, Martin: Geistliche Lieder auffs new gebessert zu Wittemberg. D. Mart. Luther, Wittemberg 1535

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edition essential source

D-B Mus.ms. Bach P 177 [Score]
D-B Mus.ms. Bach P 71 [Score]
D-B Mus.ms. Bach P 72 [Score]

Additional sources

A-Wn Mus. Hs. 3358 [Score]
D-B Am.B 596 [Score]
D-B Mus. 10668 [Erstdruck] [Score]
D-B Mus.ms. Bach P 657 [vocal score / piano reduction]
D-LEm Becker III.2.18 [Score]
D-MLHb Divi Blasii in XII/81 (heute in D-MLHm) [Part(s)]
D-MLHb Nr. 559 (Dauerleihgabe in: Mühlhausen, Marienkirche) [Part(s)]
D-Rp SM VI/85 [Score]
GB-Ob MS. M. Deneke Mendelssohn c. 55, no. 132 [Score]
PL-Wu RM 5938 [Score]
US-Wc M2025 .B2 F5 [Score]
US-Wc ML96 .B188 [Score]
Verschollen BWV 80 (1), J. G. Schuster [Score]
Verschollen BWV 80 (2), Katharinen- und Weißfrauenstift (Frankfurt) [Score]
Verschollen BWV 80 (4), List & Francke 1890 [Part(s)]
Verschollen BWV 80, K. Zulehner [Score]
Verschollen BWV 80, Kaiserin Augusta-Gymnasium (Berlin) [Part(s)]
Verschollen Choralsammlung [Score]
Verschollen Sing-Akademie BWV 80 (1), Partitur [Score]
Verschollen Sing-Akademie BWV 80 (2), Stimmen [Part(s)]
[Kantate BWV 80: Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott (Bearbeitung Satz 1, 5)] Partitur W. F. Bach [Score]
[Katalog (Angebotliste) Zulehner 1812] [Score]

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Edition

NBA I/31, S. 71 (Frieder Rempp, 1987) – Critical report (1988), S. 53;

BG 18, S.319 u. S. 381 (W. Rust, 1870)

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