Scoring summary: V (4), Coro, orch, bc

Language of Text: German

Subject: Cantatas

Catalog of works: BWV 131

Original Title: [title page, in Aloys Fuchs hand:] Cantate | "Aus der Tiefe ruff' ich o Herr! zu dir" | für | Sopran.Alt.Tenor.Bass | 1 Violin 1 Oboe 1 Fagott | 2 Violen und Orgel | componirt von | Johann Sebastian Bach | Cantor an der; Thomasschule | zu Leipzig. | Geboren zu Eisenach am 21. März 1685. | Gestorben am 28. Juli 1750. | Original=handschriftliche Partitur | des Componisten. | Componirt zu Mühlhausen im J. 1707. | [rule] | Aus der Autographen; Sammlung | des Alois Fuchs in Wien | 1840. [caption title, f.1r, in the composer's hand:] Aus der Tieffen ruffe ich Herr zu dir. a una Obboe. | doi Violæ. F

Material description:

• Source type
  Source type: Autograph manuscript
  Content type: Notated music
  Date
  1707 (1707)
  Material
  Format, extent: score: 8f.
  Dimensions: 32,4 x 20,3 cm
  Watermark description
  [eagle (double-headed, crowned)] CB
  

Provenance note: Bach, Wilhelm Friedemann, Fuchs, Aloys, Rust, Friedrich Wilhelm

Incipits:

Scoring: S, A, T, B, Coro S, Coro A, Coro T, Coro B, vl, vla (2), ob, fag, bc

Notes: Monogram "CB" in Watermark = Christoph Becker
At tail of f.18r: "Auff begehren Tit: Herrn D: Ceorg: Christ: Eilmars in die | Music gebracht von | Joh: Seb: Bach | Org: Molhusino [?]"; score with 15p.
According BWV the text derives from Psalm 130 and strophes 2 and 5 of Bartolomäus Ringwaldt's "Und er wird Israel erlösen"
Facsimile edition in MarshallC 1985

Bibliographic reference: MarshallC 1985