Melody & Text | Use of the CM by Bach | Use of the CM by other composers

Melody & Text: Zahn: 705 | EKG:

Text:

Martin Opitz, 1628.

Melody:

Anonymous, 1736.

Use of the Chorale Melody by Bach:

Text: Auf, auf, die rechte Zeit ist hier | EKG:
Author: Martin Opitz (1628)

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Score

Music Examples

1-7

BWV 440

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1736

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F229

From the Schemelli „Gesangbuch“ (No. 171), Leipzig, 1736.
The evidence shows that J. S. Bach had very little, if anything at all, to do with this chorale setting.

Use of the Chorale Melody by other composers:

Not known.

Sources: NBA, vols. III/2.1 & 2.2 in particular [Bärenreiter, 1954 to present] and the BWV ("Bach Werke Verzeichnis") [Breitkopf & Härtel, 1998]
The PDF files of the Chorales were contributed by Margaret Greentree J.S. Bach Chorales
Software: Capella 2004 Software, version 5.1.
Prepared by Thomas Braatz & Aryeh Oron (June 2006)