22nd after Trinity,
“ †
CIII.
Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (140)
27th after Trin.,
“
CIV.
Ich habe genug (82)
Candlemas,
1731-2
CV.
Ich bin vergnügt (84)
Septuagesima,
“
CVI.
Der Herr ist mein getreuer Hirt (112)
2nd after Easter,
“
CVII.
Ich liebe den Höchsten
Whitsun Monday,
“
CVIII.
Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen (51)
15th after Trin.,
“
CIX.
Gott soll allein mein Herze haben
18th after Trin.,
“
CX.
Ich will den Kreuzstab (56)
19th after Trinity,
“
CXI.
Ich geh’ und suche (49)
20th after Trinity,
“ †
CXII.
Was Gott tut, das ist wolgetan, No I. (98)
21st after Trinity,
“ †
CXIII.
Gelobet sei der Herr, mein Gott
Trinity Sunday,
1732
CXIV.
Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ
4th after Trinity,
“
CXV.
Siehe, ich will viel Fischer (88)
5th after Trinity,
1732
CXVI.
Vergnügte Ruh
6th after Trinity,
“ †
CXVII.
Es wartet alles auf dich
7th after Trinity,
“
CXVIII.
Lobe den Herren, den mächtigen König (137)
12th after Trinity,
“
CXIX.
Christus, der ist mein Leben (95)
16th after Trin.,
“ †
CXX.
Was soll ich aus dir machen (89)
22nd after Trin.,
“ †
CXXI.
O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort (60)
24th after Trinity,
“ †
CXXII.
Ach Gott wie manches Herzeleid (58)
Sunday after New Year,
1733
CXXIII.
Was Gott thut, das ist wohlgethan, No. II. (99)
15th after Trinity,
“ †
CXXIV.
In allen meinen Thaten (97)
1734
CXXV.
Nun danket alle Gott (imperfect)
about
“
CXXVI.
Lobet Gott in seinem Reichen (11)
(Oratorium) Ascension, about
“
CXXVII.
Was willst du dich betrüben (107)
7th after Trinity, about
“
CXXVIII.
Sei Lob und Ehr’ dem höchsten Gut (117)
about
“
CXXIX.
Was Gott thut, das ist wohlgethan, No. III.(100)
about
“
CXXX.
Es ist ein trotzig und versagt Ding
Trinity, after
1732
CXXXI.
Unser Mund sei voll Lachens (110)
Christmas, after
1734
CXXXII.
Wir müssen durch viel Trübsal (Jubilee music)
after
“
CXXXIII.
Brich dem Hungrigen dein Brod’ (39)
Trinity, after
“
CXXXIV.
Es ist dir gesagt, Mensch (45)
8th after Trin., after
“
CXXXV.
Lobe den Herrn, meine Seele, No. II.
New Year’s day,
1735
CXXXVI.
Wär’ Gott nicht mit uns (14)
4th after Epiphany,
“
CXXXVII.
Erfreut euch, ihr Herzen (66)
Easter Monday,
“
CXXXVIII.
Ein Herz, das seinen Jesum93 (134)
Easter Tuesday,
“
CXXXIX.
Ich bin ein guter Hirt (85)
2nd after Easter,
“
CXL.
Ihr werdet weinen (103)
3rd after Easter,
“
CXLI.
Es ist euch gut, dass ich hingehe (108)
4th after Easter,
“
CXLII.
Bisher habt ihr nichts gebeten (87)
5th aft. Easter,
“
CXLIII.
Gott fähret auf mit Jauchzen (43)
Ascension day,
“
CXLIV.
Auf Christi Himmelfahrt allein (128)
Ascension day (second service),
“
CXLV.
Sie werden euch in den Bann tun
Sunday after Ascension,
1735
CXLVI.
Wer mich liebet, der wird mein Wort (74)
Whitsunday,
“
CXLVII.
Also hat Gott die Welt geliebt (68)
Whitsun Mon.,
“
CXLVIII.
Er rufet seine Schafe mit Namen
Whitsun Tuesday,
“
CXLIX.
Was frag’ ich nach der Welt (94)
9th after Trinity,
“
CL.
Wo soll ich fliehen hin (5)
19th after Trinity,
“
CLI.
Gott, der Herr, ist Sonn und Schild (79)
21st after Trinity,
“ †
CLII.
Ich freue mich in dir (133)
3rd Christmas day,
“
CLIII.
Jesu, nun sei gepreiset (41)
New Year’s day,
1736
CLIV.
Bleib’ bei uns (6)
Easter Monday,
“
CLV.
Wer Dank opfert (17)
14th after Trinity, before
1737
CLVI.
O Jesu Christ, mein’s Lebens Licht (118)
“
CLVII.
Gott ist unsere Zuversicht94
(Wedding), 17
37-8
CLVIII.
Freue dich erlöste Schaar (30)
S. John Baptist,
1738
CLIX.
O ewiges Feuer, o Ursprung der Liebe (34)
Whitsunday,
1740-1
CLX.
Du Friedefürst, Herr Jesu Christ (116)
25th after Trinity,
1744
CLXI.
Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland (62)
1st Sunday in Advent,
1736-44
CLXII.
Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ (91)
Christmas day,
“
CLXIII.
Christum wir sollen loben schon
2nd Christmas day,
“
CLXIV.
Selig ist der Mann (57)
“
“ †
CLXV.
Süsser Trost, mein Jesus kommt
3rd Christmas day
“ †
CLXVI.
Das neugeborne Kindelein (122)
Sunday after Christmas,
“
CLXVII.
Liebster Immanuel (123)
Epiphany,
“
; CLXVIII.
Liebster Jesu, mein Verlangen (32)
1st after Epiphany,
“ †
CLXIX.
Meinen Jesum lass ich nicht (124)
“
“
CLXX.
Meine Seufzer, meine Tränen (13)
2nd after Epiphany,
“ †
CLXXI.
Ach Gott, wie manches Herzeleid (3)
“
“
CLXXII.
Was mein Gott will, das g’scheh’ allzeit (111)
3rd after Epiphany,
1736-44
CLXXIII.
Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin (125)
Candlemas,
“
CLXXIV.
Ich hab’ in Gottes Herz und Sinn (92)
Septuag.,
“
CLXXV.
Herr Jesu Christ, wahr’ Mensch und Gott (127)
Quinquagesima,
“
CLXXVI.
Am Abend aber desselbigen Sabbaths (42)
1st after Easter,
“ †
CLXXVII.
Ach Gott vom Himmel sieh darein (2)
2nd after Trinity,
“
CLXXVIII.
Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele
“
“
LXXIX.
Christ unser Herr zum Jordan kam (7)
S. John Baptist,
“
CLXXX.
Erhalt uns, Herr, bei deinem Wort (126)
6th after Trinity,
“
CLXXXI.
Meine Seele erhebet den Herren (10)
Visitation of S. Mary,
“
CLXXXII.
Warum betrübst du dich, mein Herz (138)
15th after Trinity,
“ †
CLXXXIII.
Nun ist das Heil and die Kraft (50)
Michaelmas,
“
CLXXXIV.
Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir (130)
“
“
CLXXXV.
Ach lieben Christen, seid getrost (114)
17th after Trinity,
“
CLXXXVI.
Herr Christ der ein’ge Gottessohn (96)
18th after Trinity,
“
CLXXXVII.
Ich elender Mensch (48)
19th after Trinity,
“
CLXXXVIII.
Aus tiefer not schrei ich zu dir (38)
21st after Trinity,
“
CLXXXIX.
Mache dich, mein Geist, bereit (115)
22nd after Trinity,
“
CXC.
Ach wie flüchtig, ach wie nichtig (26)
24th after Trinity,
“
CXCI.
Es reifet euch ein schrecklich Ende (90)
25th after Trinity,
“
CXCII.
Ihr Pforten zu Zion (Municipal) composed in Leipzig.95
CXCIII.
Ach Herr, mich armen Sünder (135)
3rd after Trinity.
CXCIV.
Wo Gott der Herr nicht bei uns hält
8th after Trinity.
CXCV.
Nimm von uns, Herr (101)
10th after Trinity.
CXCVI.
Herr Jesu Christ, du höchstes Gut (113)
11th after Trinity.
CXCVII.
Allein zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ (33)
13th after Trinity.
CXCVIII.
Jesu, der du meine Seele (78)
14th after Trinity.
CXCIX.
Wohl dem, der sich auf seinen Gott (139)
23rd after Trinity.
CC.
Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern (1)
Annunciation.
ENDNOTES.
1 The lines on this print are given by Spitta, vol. i. p. 9: —
Hier siehst du geigen Hansen Bachen,
Wenn du es hörst, so mustu lachen.
Er geigt gleichwohl nach seiner Art
Und trägt einen hübschen Hans Bachens Bart.
2 Spitta, i. 160. The genealogist, however, in a list of thirty-seven musicians, signalises one drunkard, Johann Friedrich, the third son of the great Johann Christoph: ibid. 139.
3 Ausdrückend was the distinctive title associated to his great-uncle by Philipp Emanuel Bach: Spitta, i. 50.
4 According to the new style the day is the 31st. Handel was born a month earlier; and English notices, since the year in this country began on the 25th of March, place his birthday in 1684. That this should create a misconception in the minds of foreign writers was natural; but it is curious that they have all failed to detect the source of the confusion, and unanimously exposed an imaginary error.
5 Bach-Gesellschaft, II. No. 15.
6 They are a fugue in C minor, and a prelude and fugue in the same key, printed in Peters’ collected edition of the instrumental works, series v. pt. 4. 9 and 5.
7 Dr. Spitta analyses the characteristics of Bach’s pedal-use in these early fugues as (1) incidental, for a single emphasis, (2) in cadences, and (3) as a pedal-point to strengthen a prolonged fundamental harmony: i. 243 f.
8 To the latter part of the stay at Arnstadt are attributed the preludes and fugues in C and A minor (Peters, v. 3. 7, 9) and a fantasia in G (v. 4. 11). Another fantasia and a fugue, both in G and presumably of the same period, remain in MS., one in the Berlin library, the other in the possession of the present cantor of S. Thomas’s, Leipzig, Dr. Wilhelm Rust.
9 Besides the pieces mentioned below, a prelude and fugue in E flat (a MS. in Dr. Rust’s possession), and a fugue in E minor seem to belong to the Arnstadt period, if indeed this latter does not date as far back as Lueneburg. It appears at No. 212, p. 12, of Peters’ cheap edition, to which, as the most generally accessible, I always refer for the clavichord works.
10 Another capriccio, which may be even earlier than the preceding, has in one copy the interesting heading, In honorem Joh. Christoph. Bachii, his brother and old preceptor at Ohrdruf (No. 216, p. 2).
11 Bach’s appointment is dated 14th June, 1707. The signatures of three members of the consistory are absent; they offer a pathetic excuse. Their houses had just been burnt to the ground in a great fire that had laid waste much of the town, and they were destitute even of the means of signing their names, hätten keine Feder oder Tinte, wären wegen des Unglücks so bestürzet, dass sie an keine Music dächten; wie es die anderen Herren machten wären sie zufrieden: Spitta, i. 851 f.
12 The description of the scene, in somewhat sesquipedalian Latin, is quoted by Spitta, i. 801.
13 Note to Quintilian, Inst. Orat. 1. xii. 3, in Spitta ii. 89.
14 Forkel, Life of J. S. Bach, pp. 30 f., E. T., London, 1820.
15 The early works for organ have already been enumerated, above pp. 21 f.
16 An excellent catalogue of this edition is contained in Alfred Doerffel’s Thematisches Verzeichniss, u.s.w., Leipzig, 1867.
17 He might indeed just go too far, as we may see from the complaints made against Bach when at Arnstadt (above p. 25).
18 Handel too was a student of Legrenzi, as a motive in one of his oratorios bears witness.
19 Mattheson proposed the theme some years later, without stating its derivation, to a candidate for examination on the organ: Spitta, i. 634 f.
20 This fugue is based upon the G minor violin-sonata, and possibly was composed at Coethen.
21 To this period belongs also a fragmentary Fantasia in C minor, preserved in MS. at Berlin.
22 The inventory of Bach’s property at his death mentions among his books August Pfeiffer’s Anti-Calvinismus. He certainly possessed it at Coethen, as witnesses the inscription on a Clavier-Büchlein written for his second wife.
23 Their intimate relatio
ns may be illustrated by the fact that a child of Bach’s, born in November, 1718, was christened after the Prince and one of his brothers, who with a sister and two courtiers all stood sponsors to the boy.
24 Bernhard Bach came to occupy his father’s old post at Muehlhausen. He afterwards studied law at Jena, but died there of a fever in 1739.
25 Spitta, i. 665-669.
26 A fifth, in A minor, remains in MS. at Berlin.
27 Dr. Spitta argues in support of its genuineness, and is inclined also to accept another one, at present unpublished, of which he quotes the opening bars: vol. ii. p. 686.
28 Add to these three detached minuets printed at 216, pp. 30 f.
29 An early sonata and two capriccios have already been noticed above, p. 23.
30 At Weimar he had already written a concerto in C minor, which remains in MS. The arrangements for clavichord of Vivaldi’s violin concertos (217) are of singular interest, as evidence of Bach’s view of the requirements and capacities of the clavichord; but they cannot be included in a list of his original works.
31 The other three have been already included under the concertante instruments.
32 Three of them have been excellently transcribed for the pianoforte by Joachim Raff, and published at Leipzig by Rieter-Biedermann.
33 Another composition for these instruments is one of the endless varieties of the Musikalische Opfer, but its position there removes it somewhat from the field of Bach’s chamber works.
34 Forkel, pp. 22 f.
35 Goerner has one claim to remembrance, since he lived to draw out the stops for Mozart when he made his historical visit to the Thomaskirche in 1789.
36 Vol. ii. p. 52.
37 To this class we may assign without hesitation the cantatas, Ich bin vergnügt mit meinem Glücke (No. 84) and Ich habe genug (No. 82). The latter is printed in a form which Bach afterwards gave to it, changing the soprano into a bass solo. Possibly Wer nur den lieben Gott lässt walten (93) had a like origin: see Spitta, ii. 274 f., 302 f., 269 ff. A secular cantata of which the subject closely resembles that of the two first-named works should seem to belong to the same category: it is printed in the Bach-Gesellschaft xi. (2) p. 105.
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