O heil'ges Geist- und Wasserbad BWV 165; BC A 90

Sacred cantata (Trinity Sunday)

Scoring

S*, A*, T*, B*, S, A, T, B; Fag, 2 Vl, Va, Bc

Date of origin

vor dem 16. Juni 1715

Early performances

16 June 1715, Weimar (Premiere)

relation to other works:

is exemplar of BWVBC F
is part of BWV diverse [1. Jg.]

Comment

The original parts and the original score (and copies of those) of the first performance in Weimar are lost. A second performance in Leipzig is assumed for June 4, 1724. For this performance a copy of the material is preserved.

Lyrics

Salomon Franck (Weimar 1715); mvt. 6: stanza 5 from 'Nun lasst uns Gott dem Herren' by Ludwig Helmbold (1575)
Link to lyrics

Edition

NBA I/15, S. 1 (Alfred Dürr, 1967) – Critical report (1968), S. 9;
BG 33, S.91 (F. Wüllner, 1887)

Original sources

D-B Am.B 105

Additional sources

D-WRz S 6:30 [Textdruck]

Static URL

https://www.bach-digital.de/receive/BachDigitalWork_work_00000200 [XML] [MEI] [JSON-LD]

gnd

300008678

Last changed

2020-05-13 : 06:04:21