Meine Seele soll Gott loben, BWV 223

Meine Seele soll Gott loben (My soul will praise God), BWV 223, is a church cantata probably composed by Johann Sebastian Bach in Mühlhausen around 1707.^[1] The music of the cantata is lost, except for four measures of the theme of the closing fugue, which is given by Spitta.^[2]^[3] According to Spitta the cantata included a duet aria for soprano and bass.^[4]^[5]

The cantata has also been attributed to ^[6] and George Frideric Handel.^[7]

References[]

^ "Cantata BWV 223 Meine Seele soll Gott loben". Bach Cantatas Website. Retrieved 14 December 2012.
^ Spitta I: 340
^ "Cantates 217–224" (in French). Université du Québec. Retrieved 18 May 2013.
^ Crouch, Simon (1999). "Cantata BWV 223, BC A 186". Classical Net. Retrieved 7 June 2013.
^ Spitta I: 339f
^ The J.S. Bach Home Page: BWV 223. Retrieved 9 April 2014.
^ Meine Seele soll Gott loben BWV 223; BC A 186 at www.bachdigital.de

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Before Leipzig	Early: BWV 4 131 71 1138.1 & .2 106 196 150 143 Weimar: BWV 61 70a 186a 132 147a 63 152 155 18 54 80a 182 31 12 172 165 21 185 199 161 162 163 Köthen: BWV Anh. 5
First cycle (1723–24)	Between Trinity and Advent: BWV 75 76 24 167 147 186 136 105 46 179 69a 77 25 138 95 148 48 109 89 60 90 70 From Advent to Trinity: BWV 40 64 190 153 65 154 73 81 83 144 181 22 23 66 134 67 104 166 86 37 44 59 184
Second cycle (& chorale cantatas)	Chorale cantatas between Trinity and Easter: BWV 20 2 7 135 10 93 107 178 94 101 113 33 78 99 8 130 114 96 5 180 38 115 139 26 116 62 91 121 133 122 41 123 124 3 111 92 125 126 127 1 Continuation of the second cycle: BWV 6 42 85 103 108 87 128 183 74 68 175 176 Later additions to the chorale cantata cycle: BWV 80 137 129 58 112 140 177 9 14 Other late chorale cantatas: BWV 117 192 100 97
Third cycle	After Trinity 1725: BWV 168 164 79 Liturgical year 1725–26: BWV 110 57 151 28 16 32 13 72 146 43 39 88 170 187 45 102 35 17 19 27 47 169 56 49 98 55 52 1727: BWV 82 84 34 173
Later and other	Picander cycle: BWV 149 188 197a 171 156 159 145 174 Late parodies: BWV 36 30 191 200 248 I 248 II 248 III 248 IV 248 V 248 VI 1083 Council election (Leipzig): BWV 119 193 29 120 69 (lost: 1139.1, 1140–1141) Wedding: BWV 34a 195 120a 197 Funeral: 157 244a Other: 194 190a 120b 51 158 50 Doubtful: 53 142 189 217 220 221 223 224
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