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
Autograph manuscript of the first movement of the cantata
Samuel Rodigast
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Samuel Rodigast was a German teacher and hymnwriter. He is remembered as the author of the hymn "Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan".
Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan, BWV 100
…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). Bach had composed a chorale cantata on the same hymn before as part of his chorale cantata cycle, but in this late work he set the complete…
Watercolour of the thirteenth century Franziskaner-Klosterkirche in Berlin in 1690 with the red-roofed Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster, where Rodigast taught, to the left