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

Melody & Text: Zahn: 6721 | EKG:

Text:

Erdmann Neumeister, 1705.

Melody:

Anonymous, 1736.

Use of the Chorale Melody by Bach:

Text: Ach, daß nicht die letzte Stunde | EKG:
Author: Erdmann Neumeister (1705)

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Score

Music Examples

1-6

BWV 439

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1736

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F274

From the Schemelli „Gesangbuch“ (No. 831), Leipzig, 1736.
The melody is not by J. S. Bach and there is very little evidence that Bach had anything at all to do with the figured bass line.

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)