Das ist je gewißlich wahr, SWV 277 (Heinrich Schütz)

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• (Posted 2018-05-24)  CPDL #49811:         

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2018-05-24).   Score information: A4, 13 pages, 133 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transcribed from the Spitta edition on IMSLP. Clefs modernised and note values halved in the triple-time sections. Includes Basso continuo.

• (Posted 2006-01-07)  CPDL #10605:     

Editor: Philip Legge (submitted 2006-01-07).   Score information: A4, 8 pages, 146 kB   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: Original version composed in 1630; the final Amen cadence is considerably more ornate than the later revision. Edition revised 8 April 2006 to correct a textual error in Soprano 2, bar 107; and 13 February 2008 to add sharp before Soprano 2, bar 74, note 1.

Possible error(s) identified. See the discussion page for full description.

General Information

Title: Das ist je gewißlich wahr, SWV 277
Composer: Heinrich Schütz
Source of text: 1 Timothy 1:15-17

Number of voices: 6vv   Voicing: SSATTB
Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: German
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1631 in Funeral motet for J. H. Schein
    2nd published: 1648 Slightly revised in re-published in Geistliche Chormusik, Dresden
    3rd published: 1892 in Heinrich Schütz: Sämtliche Werke, Volume 12, no. 2
    4th published: 1970 in Neue Schütz-Ausgabe, Volume 31, no. 4
Description: Burial motet composed in 1630 on the death of Johann Hermann Schein, and published in 1631.

Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Das ist je gewisslich wahr.