Lobe den Herrn, meine Seele, BWV 69 (Johann Sebastian Bach)
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- Contributor: Paolo Pandolfo (submitted 2017-01-23). Score information: A4, 33 pages, 1.89 MB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Scan of Bernhard Todt's piano-vocal score with English and German text
General Information
Title: Lobe den Herrn, meine Seele, BWV 69
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Cantata
Language: German
Instruments: Orchestra: recorder, 3 oboes, oboe d'amore, (oboe da caccia in 1748), bassoon, 3 trumpets, timpani, strings, continuo
First published: 1868 in Bach-Gesellschaft Ausgabe, Band 16
Opus: BWV 69, 6 movements
Description: First performed 15 August 1723, the 12th Sunday after Trinity, in the version known as BWV 69a. Revised for Town Council Elections 26 August 1748 with new libretto & recitatives, a transposed version of tenor aria No. 3 using oboe da caccia instead of oboe, and a different closing choral.
External websites:
- Lobe den Herrn, meine Seele at the Petrucci Music Library (IMSLP)
View the Wikipedia article on BWV 69a.
View the Wikipedia article on BWV 69.
- German libretto at U. Alberta.
Original text and translations
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