Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan, BWV 98
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Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan BWV 98 |
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| Church cantata by J. S. Bach | |
Autograph manuscript of the first movement of the cantata
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| Occasion | 21st Sunday after Trinity |
| Performed | 10 November 1726: Leipzig |
| Movements | 5 |
| Cantata text | Christoph Birkmann |
| Chorale | by Samuel Rodigast |
| Vocal | SATB choir and solo |
| Instrumental | |
Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan (What God does is well done),BWV 98, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed it in Leipzig for the 21st Sunday after Trinity and first performed it on 10 November 1726.
In his fourth year in Leipzig, Bach wrote the cantata for the 21st Sunday after Trinity and first performed it on 10 November 1726. It is regarded as part of his third annual cycle of cantatas. The prescribed readings for the Sunday were from Paul's Epistle to the Ephesians, "take unto you the whole armour of God" (), and from the Gospel of John, the healing of the nobleman's son (). The cantata opens with the first stanza of the chorale "Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan" (1674) by Samuel Rodigast, but it is not a chorale cantata in the strict sense of Bach's second annual cycle, cantatas on the stanzas of one chorale. He had then treated the same chorale completely in Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan, BWV 99 (1724), and would do it later once more in Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan, BWV 100 (1732).
The text of the chorale concentrates on trust in God, whereas the two cantatas previously composed for the occasion, Ich glaube, lieber Herr, hilf meinem Unglauben, BWV 109, and Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir, BWV 38, both started from doubt and distress. The poet Christoph Birkmann refers to general ideas from the gospel. He stresses that a prayer for salvation will be granted, in movement 4 according to , "knock, and it shall be opened unto you", and he continues in movement 5, paraphrasing Jacob in , "I will not let you go, except you bless me". This final movement is not a chorale, although its text begins like one, Christian Keymann's "Meinen Jesum laß ich nicht" (1658).
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