Cantata BWV Anh 1
Geseget ist die Zuversicht

Ref.

BWV Anh 1 | TVWV 1:617

German Title

Geseget ist die Zuversicht

English Title

How blessed is the confidence (by Z. Philip Ambrose)

Event

Cantata for the 7^th Sunday after Trinity
Readings: Epistle: Romans 6: 19-23; Gospel: Mark 8: 1-9

Composed

1725, by Georg Philipp Telemann (TVWV 1:617) | 1^st performance: February 12, 1725
The NBA KB I/18 p. 118 gives no further information about this except that it is not by Bach.

Text

Erdmann Neumeister (1717) ?; Psalm 34: 9 (Mvt. 3)

German-5 | Translations: English-1

Scoring

S, A, T, B;
Orchestra: Flauto traverso I, Flauto traverso. II, Violine I, Violine II, Viola, Basso continuo

Music lost

References

BGA: - | NBA: I/18 | BC: | Zwang: - | First Published: -

Status

A cantata of this title under Bach's name was in 1770 offered for sale by the music dealers Breitkopf in Leipzig, but the music has not survived. Possibly this was a case of confusion with a work of the same name by Georg Philipp Telemann; see the critical report to NBA I/18, pp. 118 f.
Alfred Dürr: The Cantatas of J.S. Bach (Oxford University Press, 2005). p. 452

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Thanks to contributors: Thomas Braatz (March 2010)