Nun ist das Heil und die Kraft, BWV 50 (Bach, Johann Sebastian)
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Sheet Music
Full Scores
Complete Score
*#01185 - 2.12MB, 24 pp. - (2) - V/V/V - 1091x⇩
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Feldmahler (2006/8/06)
Wilhelm Rust (1822–1892)
First edition
Bach-Gesellschaft Ausgabe, Band 10 (pp.341-64)
Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1860. Plate B.W. X.
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Complete Score
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Philip Legge (2010/11/13)
Philip Legge (1972*)
Choral Public Domain Library, 12 July 2002
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Parts
Complete Parts
Violins I, II, Viola, Bass, Oboes I, II, III, Trumpets I, II, III, Timpani, Continuo
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Philip Legge (2010/11/13)
Philip Legge (1972*)
Choral Public Domain Library, 12 July 2002
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Set includes alternate Oboe III part for Oboe d’amore in A (on account of Bach’s part being unplayable on the modern instrument).
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Vocal Scores
Complete Score
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Perlnerd666 (2008/11/9)
German
London: Novello, n.d.
New York: Edwin F. Kalmus, n.d.(after 1933).
English text removed and original German inserted.
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Complete Score
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Philip Legge (2010/11/13)
Philip Legge (1972*)
German
Choral Public Domain Library, 30 April 2002
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General Information
| Work Title | Nun ist das Heil und die Kraft |
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| Alternative Title |
| Composer | Bach, Johann Sebastian |
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| Opus/Catalogue Number | BWV 50 |
| Key | D major |
| Movements/Sections | 1 |
| First Publication | 1860 (BGA) |
| Librettist | Revelations 12:10 |
| Language | German |
| Average Duration | 3–4 minutes |
| Piece Style | Baroque |
| Instrumentation | Vocal — 2 Choruses (SATB+SATB) Orchestra — 3 Oboes, 3 Trumpets in D, Timpani, Strings, Continuo |
| External Links | Wikipedia article Bach-Cantatas.com |
Misc. Comments
A single movement which “poses many unresolved questions for scholarship with regard to its origin, use, and context.” The piece is really a gigantic choral fugue. The text points to its being for the Feast of the Archangel Michael.
This piece may be spurious, according to Rifkin.
Print Sources Consulted
- Dürr, Alfred. The Cantatas of J.S. Bach. 2nd ed. Richard D.P. Jones (trans).
- Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.
- Rust, Wilhelm/Editor
- Pages with First Editions
- Legge, Philip/Editor
- Pages with scores
- Pages with parts
- Works reprinted by Edwin F. Kalmus
- Legge, Philip/Arranger
- Scores
- Bach, Johann Sebastian
- Baroque
- Sacred cantatas
- Cantatas
- Religious works
- For 2 mixed choruses, orchestra
- Scores featuring mixed chorus
- Scores featuring the orchestra
- For chorus with orchestra
- German language
- Pages with parts for purchase

