• Ach lieben Christen, seid getrost

BWV 114; BC A 139

^GND

Genre

• Chorale cantata

Proper

Psalm: Psalm 50
Epistel: Epheser 4, 1-6
Gospel: Lukas 14, 1-11

Scoring

• Sopran solo, Alt solo, Tenor solo, Bass solo, Sopran, Alt, Tenor, Bass, Corno, Flauto traverso, Oboe I, oboe II, Violine I, Violine II, Viola, Basso continuo

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Date of origin, Work history

• vor dem 01. Oktober 1724

• First performance on October 1, 1724; subsequent performance around 1740–1747 (autograph handwriting styles revised Viola part); further performance without movement 4 (pencil note in parts and autograph score is omitted; removal of this note in the non-silent parts could indicate another subsequent performance)?; subsequent performance around 1755 in Leipzig under the interim directorship of C. F. Barth/C. F. Penzel (copies see below)

Early performances

1724-01-10, Leipzig, St. Nicholas Church (Premiere) (Link to event)
Predigt: Salomon Deyling
WA um 1740—1747; weitere WA ohne Satz 4?; WA um 1755 in Leipzig im Interimskantorat unter CFB/C. F. Penzel

relation to other works:

is part of BWV diverse [2. Jg.]
is part of BWV diverse [Jg. 2a]

relation from other works:

is adapted in BWV 114/7 ChSBC F 212.4a/b

Introduction to the work

Link to videos:

Ach lieben Christen, seid getrost, BWV 114 (J. S. Bach Stiftung St. Gallen)

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Libretto

• J. Gigas (1561), stanzas 1, 3 and 6 kept literally (movement 1, 4 and 7), stanzas 2, 4–5 (movement 2–3, 5–6) reworked (author unknown)

Link to lyrics

Chorale

Satz 1, 4 und 7: Johannes Gigas, "Ach, lieben Christen, seid getrost", 1561, Strophen 1, 3 und 6

in: Johann Eichorn, Geistliche Lieder, D. Mart. Luth. und anderer frommen Christen, nach ordnung der Jarzeit, Frankfurt (Oder) 1561, Seite verschollen, Seite 151

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Original sources

CH-Bps Sammlung Rudolf Grumbacher, BWV 114 (Depositum) [Score, Sketch]
D-LEb Thomana 114 (Depositum im Bach-Archiv) [Part(s)]
Verschollen BWV 114, Originalstimmen [Part(s)]

Additional sources

D-B Mus.ms. Bach P 1035 [Score]
D-B Mus.ms. Bach P 1159/III, Faszikel 1 [Score]
D-B Mus.ms. Bach P 440, Faszikel 4 [Score]
D-B Mus.ms. Bach P 964 [Score]
D-B N.Mus.ms. 10072-2 [Score]
D-HAmi Ms. 153 [Score]
D-LEb Rara II, 661/2-D [Score]
GB-Ob MS. M. Deneke Mendelssohn c. 61 [Konvolut] [Score]
GB-Ob MS. M. Deneke Mendelssohn c. 61, Faszikel 13 [Score]
PL-Wu RM 5918 [Score]
Verschollen Choralsammlung [Score]
Verschollen Sing-Akademie BWV 114, Partitur [Score]

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Edition

NBA I/23, S. 287 (Rufus Hallmark, 1982) – Critical report (1984), S. 114;

BG 24, S.83 (A. Dörffel, 1876)

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