Also hat Gott die Welt geliebt (God so loved the world), BWV 68, is a cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach, a church cantata for the second day of Pentecost. Bach composed the cantata in Leipzig and first performed it on 21 May 1725. It is one of nine cantatas on texts by Christiana Mariana von Ziegler, which Bach composed at the end of his second annual cycle of cantatas in Leipzig. In a unique structure among Bach's church cantatas, it begins with a chorale and ends with a complex choral movement on a quotation from the Gospel of John. Bach derived the two arias from his Hunting Cantata.
Original Name | Also hat Gott die Welt geliebt |
Librettist | Salomo Liscow (1640-1689) (No.1) Christiana Mariana von Ziegler (1695-1760) (Nos.2-4) Bible (John 3:18) (No.5) |
Date of composition | 1725 in Leipzig, Germany |
Premiered | 1725, May 21st in Leipzig, Germany |
First published | 1853 (in part?) 1868 (BGA) |
Dedicated to | 2nd day of Pentecost (Whit Monday) |
Type | Sacred Cantata |
Tonality | D Minor |
Catalogue | BWV 68 |
Spoken language | German |
Instruments |
2x
Voice
Chorus/Choir Orchestra |
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Autotranslations beta |
Jean-Sébastien Bach: God so loved the world en ré mineur, BWV 68 Johann Sebastian Bach: God so loved the world in re minore, BWV 68 Johann Sebastian Bach: God so loved the world d-moll, BWV 68 |