IN DEATH THERE IS NO REMEMBRANCE - Bach: Cantatas 97 and 100, without Occasion

Commentary No. 42 of The Bach Cantatas

Cantata 97

Composed in 1734, this cantata, like cantata 117, takes as its text a hymn of nine stanzas, this time Paul Fleming’s In allen meinen Taten (In all of my deeds), written in 1633 before Fleming’s departure for Riga, and published in 1642. Each stanza contains six lines, rhymed aabccb. The poem, originally in 15 stanzas, is based upon Psalm 6.

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