Gott, man lobet dich in der Stille, BWV 120 (Johann Sebastian Bach)
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- (Posted 2017-04-03) CPDL #43866:
- Contributor: Paolo Pandolfo (submitted 2017-04-03). Score information: A4, 28 pages, 1.95 MB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: A scan of the piano-vocal score by Berhard Todt.
Separate movements
6. Nun hilf uns, Herr, den Dienern dein (Chorale)
- (Posted 2004-02-17) CPDL #06701:
- Editor: Marco Gallo (submitted 2004-02-17). Score information: A4, 1 page, 27 kB Copyright: Free Art License
- Edition notes: Chorale from cantata BWV 120.
General Information
Title: Gott, man lobet dich in der Stille, BWV 120
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Cantata
Language: German
Instruments: Orchestra: 2 oboes d'amore, 3 trumpets, timpani, strings, continuo
First published: 1876 in Bach-Gesellschaft Ausgabe, Band 24
Opus: BWV 120, 6 movements
Description: Cantata for the inauguration of a new town council. It is now accepted that the work acquired its surviving form no earlier than 1742, but 3 movements appear to be parodied from 2 lost works known from their libretti:Gott, man lobet dich BWV 120b for the 1730 commemoration of the Augsburg Confession, and the c.1729 wedding cantata Herr Gott, Beherrscher aller Dinge BWV 120a, and the music of the soprano aria appears in the violin sonata BWV 1019a, c. 1725. Bach reworked the choral second movement for the Symbolum Nicenum of his Mass in B minor.
External websites:
- Gott, man lobet dich in der Stille at the Petrucci Music Library (IMSLP)
View the Wikipedia article on BWV 120.
- German libretto at U. Alberta.
Original text and translations
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German text
6.
Nun hilf uns, Herr, den Dienern dein,
Die mit deinm Blut erlöset sein!
Laß uns im Himmel haben teil
Mit den Heilgen im ewgen Heil!
Hilf deinem Volk, Herr Jesu Christ,
Und segne, was dein Erbteil ist;
Wart und pfleg ihr zu aller Zeit
Und heb sie hoch in Ewigkeit!