"" ("In God, My Faithful God", literally: In my dear God trust is a

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from the 17th century. Several hymns are sung to the same

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, including "", and it was set in compositions. The hymn was translated into English as "In God, My Faithful God". It is part of modern hymnals and songbooks.

History

In 1607, "" was printed in ''766 Geistliche Psalmen'' in

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. The publication does not name a text author for the hymn. In a 1611 hymnal, the hymn "Auf Jesum Christ steht all mein Thun" appears as a text written by Sigismund Weingärtner, an author about whom little is known. For the next hymn, "", no author name is given: it has been assumed that Weingärtner wrote this text too. The beginning is "", expressing trust in God even in anxiety and distress. A modified version of Zahn No. 2160, the melody of "Venus du und dein Kind" (

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, you and

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), a 1574 secular song by

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, appeared in 1609 with the "Auf meinen lieben Gott" text (Zahn No. 2162).

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published his variant of the tune, Zahn No. 2164, with the "Auf meinen lieben Gott" text in 1627: this version of the tune was later also used for several other hymns. "Wo soll ich fliehen hin" is one of the hymns sung to the Zahn 2164 tune. Other melodies for "Auf meinen lieben Gott", Zahn Nos. 2165 and 2166, were published in 1727 and 1731 respectively. The hymn was included in the 1653 edition of

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's ''

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'', with a bass line by Crüger.

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translated the hymn into English as "In God, My Faithful God". The song is part of the Protestant hymnal '' Evangelisches Gesangbuch'' as EG 345. It appears in regional sections of the Catholic hymnal ''

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'', and in other hymnals and songbooks.

Musical settings

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composed a chorale partita, ''Auf meinen lieben Gott'', BuxWV 179. Amongst Buxtehude's chorales this keyboard setting was unusual for its time, as it was both a secular suite of dances as well as a sacred set of variations with a funerary theme.

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closed his 1723 cantata ''Bringet dem Herrn Ehre seines Namens'', BWV 148, with a four-part setting of the hymn tune. The

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suggests the fifth stanza from "". Bach included a stanza from the hymn as the closing chorale of his cantata ''Ich habe meine Zuversicht'', BWV 188, probably in 1728, in a movement without text.

References

{{reflist, 30em , refs = {{BDh, 11232, , 2019-05-22, Work, Auf meinen lieben Gott BWV 5/7 {{cite web , last = Dahn , first = Luke , url = http://www.bach-chorales.com/BWV0148_6.htm , title = BWV 148.6 , website = bach-chorales.com , date = 2010 {{cite web , last = Dahn , first = Luke , url = http://www.bach-chorales.com/BWV0188_6.htm , title = BWV 188.6 , website = bach-chorales.com , date = 2010 {{cite book , last = Kaiser , first = Jochen , title = 345 Auf meinen lieben Gott , work = Liederkunde zum Evangelischen Gesangbuch , publisher = Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht , volume = 21 , date = 2015 , page = 70-73 , language = de , isbn = 978-3-52-550343-0 {{cite journal , last = Rathey , first = , jstor = 40800911 , title = Buxtehude and the Dance of Death: The Chorale Partita Auf meinen lieben Gott (BUXWV 179) and the Ars moriendi in the Seventeenth Century , journal =

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, publisher = Cambridge University Press , volume = 29 , date = 2010 , page = 161-188 {{cite book , last1 = Zahn , first1 = Johannes , author-link1= Johannes Zahn , date = 1890 , title = Sechszeilige Melodien , trans-title = Melodies in six lines , url=https://archive.org/details/1508284209bsb11304500 , series=

Die Melodien der deutschen evangelischen Kirchenlieder A Lutheran chorale is a musical setting of a Lutheran hymn, intended to be sung by a congregation in a German Protestant Church service. The typical four-part setting of a chorale, in which the sopranos (and the congregation) sing the melody a ...

, volume = II , location = Gütersloh , publisher =

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External links

Bach Cantatas Website 2006

Bach Cantatas Website 2008 {{Hymn tunes by Zahn number {{German Lutheran hymns {{authority control 17th-century hymns in German Lutheran hymns