Original source: Chorale, Gott lebet noch, BWV 320 Chorale Text:Gott lebet noch*, by Johann Friedrich Zihn (1692) Tune:Gott lebet noch, Halle 1704 (Zahn 7951) First Performance: Unknown Appearance in Early Collections (Key):
Riemenschneider 234;
Breitkopf 234;
AmB 46II p.209;
Penzel 168;
Schemelli BWV 461* (see note below)
Other Harmonizations: None
Notes
This chorale survives without text. The text that appears here is the one provided by editors of the Bach Gesellschaft Ausgabe (BGA).
This setting is a four–part realization of a two–part chorale (with thoroughbass figures) from the Schemelli Gesangbuch, BWV 461. (See Chorale No.37 on p.172 of NBA III/2.1) For a full listing of four–part realizations of two–part Schemelli chorales, visit Schemelli Realizations.