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Texts & Translations of Bach Cantatas & Other Vocal Works
Sources for the Original German Text & the Respective Translations |
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Original German Text |
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German-1: The Bach Cantatas - Original Texts
Webmaster: Walter F. Bischof |
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German-2: Johann Sebastian Bach - The Complete Cantatas Project [no longer available]
The links on the BCW point to the versions of this site on the Internet Archive from June-August 2004
Webmaster: Jan Koster |
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German-3: Libretti of the Cantatas and Other Vocal Works [not linked from cantata pages]
Webmaster: Lyle K. Neff, Indiana University |
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German-4: Johann Sebastian Bach – i testi [not linked from cantata pages]
Webmaster: Gianni Soro |
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German-5: German Texts of Non-Bach & Lost Cantatas [Bach Cantatas Website]
Webmaster: Aryeh Oron |
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German-6: Bach Digital |
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German-7: Göttinger Bach-Katalog [no longer available]
According to Dr. Christine Blanken from Bach-Archiv Leipzig, The Göttinger Bach-Katalog has been fully replaced by Bach Digital. The Metadata were transferred to Bach Digital and unfortunately some years ago the Göttingen server was closed (September 2022). |
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NBA Text: Bach Cantatas Website, from Cantata texts based on the NBA
Webmaster: Nagamiya Tutomu |
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German Translations |
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German-7: Bach Cantatas Website
Translator: Francis Browne |
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English Translations |
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English-1: Texts of the Complete Vocal Works, with English Translation and Commentary
Translator: Z. Philip Ambrose |
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English-2: Johann Sebastian Bach - The Complete Cantatas Project
Translator: Jan Koster |
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English-3: Bach Cantatas Website [Interlinear/Parallel Format]
Translator: Francis Browne |
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English-4: Alexandre Henrique Hohmann - Bach Pages [including original texts; no longer available]
The links on the BCW point to the versions of this site on the Internet Archive from January-February 2004.
Translator: Alexandre Henrique Hohmann |
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English-5: San Francisco Bach Choir Home Page [including original texts, some partial; no longer available]
The links on the BCW point to the versions of this site on the Internet Archive from 2003-2005.
Translator: ? |
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English-6: Emmanuel Music - Bach Cantata Translations [including original texts]
Translator: Pamela Dellal |
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English-7: The Lied and Song Texts Page [singable translations, only one aria from each work]
Translator: Ebenezer Prout |
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English-8: Bach Cantatas Website
Translator: Paul H. Farseth |
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English-9: Bach Cantatas Website
Translator: Various |
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English-10: Bach Vespers at Holy Trinity > Now on Bach Cantatas Website
Translator: Tobin Schmuck |
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English-11: Bach Cantatas Website
Translator: Alexandra Glynn |
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English-12: Bach Cantatas Website
Translator: Laurenthia Mesh |
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English-13: BachCantataTexts.org
New English translations of the texts of J.S. Bach's vocal music are based on the historical language and theology of Bach's time.
Translators: Michael Marissen & Daniel R. Melamed |
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English-14: Bach Cantatas Website [Parallel Format]
Translator: John Kaye Gottschall |
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Arabic Translations |
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Arabic-1: Translator: Bach Cantatas Website
Translator: Tamer Massalha |
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Catalan Translations |
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Catalan-1: Bach Cantatas Website
Translator: Antoni Sàbat i Aguilera |
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Catalan-2: Traduccions al Català de les Cantates Religioses de J.S. Bach [not linked from the cantata pages]
Translators: Josep Serra & Rosa Fàbregas |
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Chinese Translations |
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Chinese-1: Bach Cantatas Website
Translator:Yang Jingfeng |
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Chinese-2: Bach Cantatas Website
Translator:Chen-Hanson Ting |
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Chinese-3: 翻译论坛
Translator:? |
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Danish Translations |
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Danish-1: Bach Cantatas Website
Translator: Bente Marie Braarud |
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Danish-2: Bach Cantatas Website
Translator: Peter Wemmelund |
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Dutch Translations |
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Dutch-0: Bach Cantatas Website
Translator: Mostly Ria van Hengel; some by others edited by her |
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Dutch-1: Bach Cantatas Website
Translators: Dick Wursten, Peter Bloemendaal |
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Dutch-2: Bach cantaten gesortseerd op BWV-nummer [Walter F. Bischof Website; no longer available]
The links on the BCW point to the versions of this site on the Internet Archive from 2005-2015.
Translators: Léon P.B. Habets, Tanja Luinge |
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Dutch-3: Bach Cantatas Website
Translators: Eduard van Hengel, Ria van Hengel, Andre Stuivenberg, Alice Bij de Vaate, Leo de Leeuw, Rob over de Linden, Kees Bogaard |
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Dutch-4: Bach Cantatas Website
Translator: Henk Pijlman |
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Dutch-5: Bach Cantatas Website
Translator: Janny Kisteman |
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Dutch-6: Bach Cantatas Website
Translator: Jaap H. van der Laan |
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Dutch-7: Bach Cantatas Website
Translator: Henk Beindorff |
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Dutch-8 : Bach Cantatas Website
Translator: Bert Rooze |
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Dutch-9: Bach Cantatas Website
Translators: Kees Boogaard & Rob over de Linden |
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Dutch-10: Bach Cantatas Website
Translator: Unknown translator |
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Dutch-11: Bach Cantatas Website
Translator: Jaap van der Does |
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French Translations |
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French-1: Cantates arrangées par numéro BWV [Walter F. Bischof Website; no longer available]
The links on the BCW point to the versions of this site on the Internet Archive from January-April 2005.
Translator: Walter F. Bischof |
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French-2: J.S. Bach [no longer available]
The links on the BCW point to the versions of this site on the Internet Archive from April 2004.
Translator: Christophe Chazot |
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French-3: Les cantates de Bach en Français [Bach en Combrailles; no longer available]
The links on the BCW point to the versions of this site on the Internet Archive from June 2004.
Translator: Christophe Chazot |
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French-4: Bach Cantatas Website [Note to Note Format]
Transcription en français des textes mis en musique par Jean-Sébastien Bach [with the possibility of hearing the music]
Translator: Jean-Pierre Grivois |
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French-5: Bienvenu à bachoque.ch !
Translator: Marc Seiler |
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French-6: Bach Cantatas Website [Interlinear Format]
Translators: Guy Laffaille / Walter F. Bischof |
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French-7: Bachoque.ch [not linked from the cantata pages]
Marc Seiler |
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Greek Translations |
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Greek-1: Bach Cantatas Website
Translator: Jerassimos Coidan |
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Hebrew Translations |
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Hebrew-1: Bach Cantatas Website
Translators: Aryeh Oro, Irit Schoenhorn |
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Hebrew-2: Bach Cantatas Website
Translator: Galia Regev |
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Hebrew-3: Bach Cantatas Website
Translators: Others |
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Hebrew-6: Bach Cantatas Website
Translator: Sharon Rosner |
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Hebrew-7: Bach Cantatas Website
Translator: Benny Gershon |
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Hebrew-8: Bach Cantatas Website
Translator: Benny Hendel |
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Hungarian Translations |
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Hungarian-1, Hungarian-3: Bach Cantatas Website | Kantáta szövegek, ismertetők, kották (Lutherania) [Word Documents]
Translator: Various translators |
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Hungarian-2: Bach Cantatas Website | Purcell Choir - Orfeo Orchestra [Word Documents]
Translator: Various translators |
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Indonesian Translations |
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Indonesian-1: Bach Cantatas Website [Word-for-Word Format]
Translator: Rianto Pardede |
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Italian Translations |
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Italian-1: Johann Sebastian Bach - The Complete Cantatas Project
Translator: Jan Koster |
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Italian-2: Bach Cantatas Website
Translator: Emanuele Antonacci |
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Italian-3: Bach Cantatas Website
Translator: Riccardo Pisano |
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Italian-4: Bach Cantatas Website
Translators: Riccardo Nughes / Vittorio Marnati |
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Italian-5: Bach Cantatas Website
Translator: Alberto Lazzari |
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Italian-6: Bach Cantatas Website
Translator: Stafano Lecce |
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Italian-7: Bach Cantatas Website
Translator: Antonio Viglino |
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Italian-8: Bach Cantatas Website
Translator: Giampiero Innocente |
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Japanese Translations |
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Japanese-2: Hideo Kobayashi Bach Site [including original texts]
Translator: Hideo Kobayashi |
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Japanese-3: Translations by Junshiro Kawabata [not linked from cantata pages]
Translations by Junshiro Kawabata [PDF, not linked from cantata pages]
Translator: Junshiro Kawabata |
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Japanese-4: Translations by Tafelmusik Kamakura [not linked from cantata pages]
Translator: Tafelmusik Kamakura |
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Japanese-5: Translations by Bachkreis Kobe [Interlinear format; not linked from cantata pages]
Translator: Bachkreis Kobe |
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Japanese-6: Bach Cantatas Website + Bach-Chor Tokyo
Translator: Emiko Ohmura |
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Norwegian Translations |
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Norwegian-1: Bach Cantatas Website
Translator: Ragnar Grøm |
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Polish Translations |
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Polish-1: Kantaty Jana Sebastiana Bacha po polsku
Translators: Filip Adam Zieliński, Armin and Andrzej Teske, Professor Mirosław Perz; Paweł Piszczatowski Ph.D. |
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Polish-2: Bach Cantatas Website
Translator: Filip Adam Zieliński |
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Portuguese Translations |
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Portuguese-1: Bach Cantatas Website
Translator: Rodrigo Maffei Libonati |
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Portuguese-2: Bach Cantatas Website
Translator: Leonardo Santos |
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Portuguese -2: Bach Cantatas Website
Translator: Laura Rónai |
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Romanian Translations |
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Romanian-1: Bach Cantatas Website
Translator: Razvan Georgescu |
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Romanian-2: Bach Cantatas Website
Translator: Liviu Simionescu |
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Russian Translations |
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Russian-1: Bach Cantatas Website
Translator: Peter Meshcherinov |
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Russian-3: Bach Cantatas Website
Translator: Igor Sivkov |
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Spanish Translations |
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Spanish-1 Bach Cantatas Website
Translator: José Mª Translator: Pajares Box |
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Spanish-2: Juan Sebastián Bach (1685 - 1750) [KAREOL] [including original texts]
Translators: Tente González, Eduardo Almagro, Francisco Such Ronda, Jesús Iragui-Yoldi, Juan Castón, Enrique Alcacer, Francisco López Hernández, Jesús Cuevas, Jaime Goyena |
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Spanish-3: Bach Cantatas Website
Translator: Francisco López Hernández |
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Spanish-4: Bach Cantatas Website
Translator: Lorenzo Conejo |
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Spanish-5: Bach Cantatas Website
Translator: Carlos Casabona |
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Spanish-6: Bach Cantatas Website
Translator: Alberto Hernández Cabrera |
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Spanish-7: Bach Cantatas Website
Translator: Saúl Botero-Restrepo |
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Spanish/English-8: Bach Cantatas Website
Translator: John Kaye Gottschall |
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Sources for Biographies of Librettists & Hymn-Writers of Bach Cantatas & Other Vocal Works |
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BBKL: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon [German]. Webmaster: Verlag Traugott Bautz |
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CCELL: Christian Classics Ethereal Library. Webmaster: Calvin College |
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Cyber Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal - Dedicated to the Glory of God |
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ELHHB: Evangelical Lutheran Hymnary Handbook - Biographies and Sources. Webmaster: Bethany Lutheran College |
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GC: Gospelcom.net - A Ministry of Gospel Communication |
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HL: Das Ökumenische Heiligenlexikon [German] |
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JEK: James Kiefer's Christian Biographies. Webmaster: James Kiefer |
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Prepared by Aryeh Oron (March 2001 - October 2023) |
