BWV 72
| Alles nur nach Gottes Willen | |
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| BWV 72 | |
| Church cantata by J. S. Bach | |
Thomaskirche, Leipzig
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| Related | base for BWV 235 |
| Occasion | Third Sunday after Epiphany |
| Performed | 26 January 1726: Leipzig |
| Movements | 6 |
| Cantata text | Salomon Franck |
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| Chorale | by Albert, Duke of Prussia |
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Alles nur nach Gottes Willen (Everything according to God's will alone),BWV 72, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed it in Leipzig in 1726 for the third Sunday after Epiphany and first performed it on 27 January 1726. Bach used the opening chorus for the Gloria of his Missa in G minor, BWV 235.
Bach composed the cantata in his third annual cycle for the Third Sunday after Epiphany. The prescribed readings for the Sunday were taken from the Epistle to the Romans, rules for life (), and from the Gospel of Matthew, the healing of a leper (). The cantata text was written by Salomon Franck, who was Bach's librettist when they both worked for the ducal court in Weimar. Franck published it in Evangelisches Andachts-Opffer in 1715, whereas Bach composed the music much later. Ihr, die ihr euch von Christo nennet, BWV 164, is a comparable example of Bach turning to a text by Franck.
The closing chorale "Was mein Gott will, das g'scheh allzeit" was written by Albert, Duke of Prussia in 1547. The chorale theme (Zahn 7568) by Claudin de Sermisy first appeared in print in the collection of secular songs Trente et quatre chansons in 1528. Bach had used the chorale before as the base for his chorale cantata Was mein Gott will, das g'scheh allzeit, BWV 111, composed for the same occasion in 1725.
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