Rudolph Friedrich von Schult (Poet)

Born: March 15, 1644
Died: 1718 - Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany

Rudolph [Rudolf] Friedrich von Schultt was poet for sacred songs and assistant at the Franck'schen Waisenhaus in Halle (Saale). He married on June 27, 1679 to Helene Juliane Kölbel (d 1691); was the father of Julia Patientia von Schultt; married in second marriage to Sophia Sibylla von Voß. In 1699, he moved to Darmstadt in 1699, where he lived until his death in 1718.

Source: Bits & pieces fromn variou sources
Contributed by Aryeh Oron (March 2020)

Texts of Bach Cantatas & Other Vocal Works

BWV 424; BWV 506

Chorale Texts used in Bach’s Vocal Works

Was bist du doch, o Seele, so betrübt (1704)

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