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The use of the vocabular "wenn" is antiquated and poetic colored. Ok, so it's cleared, thanks. I'm sorry :oops: , I wanted to write clarified , not cleared (English isn't my best, I prefer other languages)... „wenn“ is a dialect form (in Thuringia and a few other regions in Bach’s time) o...

The use of the vocabular "wenn" is antiquated and poetic colored. Ok, so it's cleared, thanks. The question he arises is at length: What will happen, when I die. He don´t ask for the time of his death ("wann"). Sure? Further the text refers on the shortness of the life (Meine Ze...

It can't be specific of an edition. "Wann" is an interrogative adverb (the title is clearly a question: "Wann werd' ich sterben?"), "wenn" can't stay in a question.

I hope this is the right place for this. I would notify an error in the title of this cantata on IMSLP: the right title is "Liebster Gott, WANN werd' ich sterben" (and not "..., WENN..."), as it is grammatically correct and written on the score . I noticed that this error is very...