Also hat Gott die Welt geliebt, BWV 68 (Johann Sebastian Bach)

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(Posted 2017-01-19) CPDL #42717:

Contributor: Paolo Pandolfo (submitted 2017-01-19). Score information: A4, 37 pages, 1.95 MB Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Scan of Bernhard Todt's piano-vocal score (English & German)

Separate movements

(Posted 2008-07-08) CPDL #17449:

Editor: David Newman (submitted 2008-07-08). Score information: Letter, 5 pages, 126 kB Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Cross posting by Art Song Central. Includes a piano accompaniment of the arrangement that truncates the closing ritornello of the original aria.

General Information

Title: Also hat Gott die Welt geliebt, BWV 68
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Lyricist: Christiana Mariana von Ziegler^{create page}

Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB, with choral solo SB
Genre: Sacred, Cantata

Language: German
Instruments: Orchestra: 2 oboes, taille, horn, cornettino, 3 trombones strings (including violoncello piccolo), continuo

First published: 1868 in Bach-Gesellschaft Ausgabe 16
Opus: BWV 68, 5 movements
Description: First performed 21 May 1725. Both solo arias derive from the secular cantata Was mir behagt, ist nur die muntre Jagd, BWV 208.

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Free choir training aids for this work are available at Choralia.
Also hat Gott die Welt geliebt at the Petrucci Music Library (IMSLP)
View the Wikipedia article on Also hat Gott die Welt geliebt, BWV 68 (Johann Sebastian Bach).
Complete libretto.

Original text and translations

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German text

Mein gläubiges Herze,
Frohlocke, sing, scherze,
Dein Jesus ist da!

Weg Jammer, weg Klagen,
Ich will euch nur sagen:
Mein Jesus ist nah.