Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan, BWV 100
Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan, BWV 100, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed it in Leipzig between 1732 and 1735. The chorale cantata is based on the hymn "Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan" Samuel Rodigast (1674).
Autograph manuscript of the first movement of the cantata
Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan
"Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan" is a Lutheran hymn written by the pietist German poet and schoolmaster Samuel Rodigast in 1675. The melody has been attributed to the cantor Severus Gastorius. An earlier hymn with the same title was written in the first half of the seventeenth century by the theologian Michael Altenburg.
Text and melody of Samuel Rodigast's hymn Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan in the Nürnbergisches Gesangbuch of 1690
Account of the hymn's creation, in the 1695 Nordhausen Gesangbuch, reprinted from the 1687 edition
Philipp Jakob Spener, founder of the pietist movement
1650 engraving of Jena viewed from NW: Raths-Schule near Stadtkirche St Michael in centre; university complex by town wall on right.