• Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut (Köthen version)

BWV 199.2; BWV 199; BC A 120b

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Other catalogues

• NV 1790, S. 71 [4]

Genre

• Sacred cantata

Proper

Psalm: Psalm 130
Epistel: 1. Korinther 15, 1-10
Gospel: Lukas 18, 9-14

Scoring

S*; Ob, 2 Vl, Va, Vdg, Bc

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Date of origin, Work history

• um 1720-1723

• Date of composition around 1719/1720. The sequence of movements is like that in BWV 199.1, but transposed up by a whole tone and with different instrumentation: Movement 6 features the viola da gamba instead of the viola as the obligato instrument. On the Weimar obligato viola part (see BWV 199.1), there is also an apparently unfinished (somewhat earlier?) alternative version with different instrumental disposition for oboe, violin I/II, viola, violoncello, and basso continuo (see Hofmann BJ 2013 and Wollny BJ 2020)

relation to other works:

is part of BWV diverse [K. Kant.]

Introduction to the work

Link to videos:

Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut, BWV 199.2 (Netherlands Bach Society)

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Libretto

• G. C. Lehms. Movement 6: Wo soll ich fliehen hin (J. Heermann, 1630), Stanza 3. Text print: Lehms 1711/II, page 64 (Devotion for the Eleventh Sunday after Trinity)

Link to lyrics

Chorale

Satz 6: J. Heermann, Wo soll ich fliehen hin, 1630, Strophe 3

in: Johann Heermann, Devoti Musica Cordis, Breslau 1630, Seite 20ff

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Original sources

A-Wgm A 88 [Part(s)]
D-B Mus.ms. Bach P 1162 [Score and part(s), Sketch]
D-B Mus.ms. Bach St 459, Faszikel 2 [Part(s)]
RUS-SPlp Nr. 9789w [Part(s)]
[Kantate BWV 199: Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut (Köthener Fassung)] Originalstimmen [Part(s)]

Additional sources

Verschollen BWV 199 (1), W. Rust [Score]

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Edition

NBA I/20, S. 48 (Klaus Hofmann, 1986; nur zu Satz 6-8) – Critical report (1985), S. 56;

BG 41, S.202 (A. Dörffel, 1894; nur Stimme Vdg)

Literature

• Hofmann BJ 2013; Wollny BJ 2020

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2023-08-26 02:04:35