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
- Sopran solo, Bass solo, Sopran, Alt, Tenor, Bass, Oboe, Violine I, Violine II, Viola, Basso continuo
- Date of origin, Work history
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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)
- Author Libretto
- Franck, Salomon (1659–1725)
- 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
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Satz 6:
Martin Luther, "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott", 1529, Strophe 2in: Luther, Martin: Geistliche Lieder auffs new gebessert zu Wittemberg. D. Mart. Luther, Wittemberg 1535
- Original sources
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[Kantate BWV 80b: Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott] Autographe Partitur (Fragment) [Score]
F-Ppo A. Mickiewicz Rkp. 973 [Score]
RUS-SPsc BWV 80b [Score]
US-PRscheide BWV 80b [Score]
- Edition
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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
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- Last changed
- 2024-06-06 : 04:19:16
