Johann Sebastian Bach composed the church cantata Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan, BWV 98, in Leipzig for the 21st Sunday after Trinity and first performed it on 10 November 1726.
Autograph manuscript of the first movement of the cantata
Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir, BWV 38, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach, composed in Leipzig in 1724 for the 21st Sunday after Trinity and first performed on 29 October 1724. It is base
Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan, BWV 98
…concentrates on trust in God, whereas the two cantatas previously composed for the occasion, Ich glaube, lieber Herr, hilf meinem Unglauben, BWV 109, and Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir, BWV 38, both started from doubt and distress. The poet Christoph Birkmann refers to general ideas from the gospel. He stresses that a prayer for salvation…
Luther's hymn, the basis for the cantata, in a 1524 print