Original source: Chorale, Keinen hat Gott verlassen, BWV 369 Chorale Text: Keinen hat Gott verlassen*, Anon. 1611 Tune: Keinen hat Gott verlassen, Berlin 1640, based on an anonymous melody 1609 (Zahn 5394) First Performance: Unknown Appearance in Early Collections (Key):
Riemenschneider 129;
Breitkopf 129;
Birnstiel 133;
AmB 46II p.85 & p.115;
Penzel 154
Other Harmonizations: None
Notes
This chorale survives without text. The text that appears here is the one provided by editors of the Bach Gesellschaft Ausgabe (BGA).
Speculation regarding liturgical occasion: Smend speculates that this setting "likely" ("wahrscheinlich") served as the 40th movement of the lost St. Mark Passion (BWV 247), using the 1st verse of Keinen hat Gott verlassen. (See NBA III/2.2 KB, p.211.)