Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott [1st Leipzig version] BWV 80.2; BWV 80b; BC A 183a

^GND

Genre

Chorale cantata

Proper

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

Scoring

S*, B*, S, A, T, B; Ob, 2 Vl, Va, Bc

---

Date of origin, Work history

um 1729-1731
Date of composition around 1729‒1731. Music and text are lost except for a few autograph fragments of the score as evidenced by facsimiles of the preserved parts in NBA I/31, pages VIII, IX

relation to other works:

is exemplar of BWVBC F
is part of BWV diverse [o.Jg.]

relation from other works:

is adapted in BWV 80/8 ChS

Comment

Early version of BWV 80 (fragment).

Introduction to the work

Link to videos:

Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott, BWV 80.2 (J. S. Bachstiftung St. Gallen)

---

Libretto

Presumably like BWV 80.3

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)

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

---

Original sources

F-Ppo A. Mickiewicz Rkp. 973 [Score]
RUS-SPsc BWV 80b [Score]
US-PRscheide BWV 80b [Score]
[Kantate BWV 80b: Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott] Autographe Partitur (Fragment) [Score]

---

Edition

NBA I/31, S. 65 (Frieder Rempp, 1987) – Critical report (1988), S. 47

---

persistent ID

BachDigitalWork_work_00000101

Static URL

https://www.bach-digital.de/receive/BachDigitalWork_work_00000101

Export format

[PDF] [XML] [MEI] [JSON-LD]

Last changed

2023-09-12 : 10:51:41