Die Gottseligkeit ist zu allen Dingen nütz, SWV 299 (Heinrich Schütz)

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  • (Posted 2018-05-31)  CPDL #49914:         
Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2018-05-31).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 46 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: Transcribed from the Spitta edition on IMSLP. Clefs modernised.
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General Information

Title: Die Gottseligkeit ist zu allen Dingen nütz
Composer: Heinrich Schütz
Source of text: 1 Timothy 4:8b

Number of voices: 3vv   Voicing: SSB soli
Genre: SacredMotet

Language: German
Instruments: Basso continuo

First published: 1636 in Kleine geistliche Konzerte I, Op. 8, no. 18
    2nd published: 1887 in Heinrich Schütz: Sämtliche Werke, Volume 6, no. 18
    3rd published: 1963 in Neue Schütz-Ausgabe, Volume 11, no. 8
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Original text and translations

German.png German text

Die Gottseligkeit ist zu allen Dingen nütz, und hat die Verheißung dieses und des künftigen Lebens.

English.png English translation

Godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.