Ref.:

BWV 120b; BC [B 28]

German Title:

Gott, man lobet dich in der Stille

English Title:

God, praise waiteth Thee in the temple (by Simon Crouch)

Event:

200^th Anniversary of the Augsburg Confession

Composed:

Leipzig, 1730 (BWV 120, BWV 120a & BWV 120b were all adapted from a lost Köthen original. Mvts. 1, 2 & 4 parody of BWV 120)
1^st performance: June 26, 1730 - Leipzig (St. Thomas Church)

Text:

Mvt. 1: Psalm 65:2; Mvts. 2-5: Christian Friedrich Henrici (Picander) [Ernst-Schertzhaffte und Satyrische Gedichte, Teil III (Leipzig, 1732); Reprint: Sicul,Annales Lipsienses, Sectio XXXVIII, 1731, and Das Jubilierende Leipzig, 1731; Facs: Neumann T, p. 333]; Mvt. 6: Martin Luther, verse 3 of "Komm, Heiliger Geist, Heere Gott," 1524 (Wackernagel, I, #199).
Parody: 1, 2, 4 <--- BWV 120/1, 2, 4.

BWV 120b Text: German-5 | German-6 | German-7
Translations: English-1 | English-10

Scoring:

Music lost

Scores:

BWV 120b Scores: Missing.

References:

BWV 120b=BWV 120.3 References: BGA: - | NBA: I/34 | BC: B 28 | Zwang: - | First Published: - | Provenance | Bach Digital

Commentaries:

BWV 120b Commentaries: English: Crouch
EvH [Dutch] | Role [French]

Music:

-

Discussions:

Week of March 4, 2001; Week of July 13, 2008; Week of April 28, 2013; Week of August 13, 2017

Contents:

Complete Recordings of Cantata BWV 120
Recordings of Individual Movements from Cantata BWV 120
Complete Recordings of Cantata BWV 120a
Recordings of Individual Movements from Cantata BWV 120a
Details of Cantata BWV 120b

Discussions - Part 1 (1^st round)
Discussions - Part 2 (2^nd round)
Discussions - Part 3 (3^rd round)
Discussions - Part 4 (4^th round)

Recordings - Not Recorded

Pepared by Aryeh Oron (November 2002 - August 2017)