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'''{{lang|de|Tilge, Höchster, meine Sünden}}''' (Cancel, Highest, my sins), '''{{abbr|BWV|Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis (catalogue of Bach's works)}}{{nbsp}}1083''', is a sacred vocal composition by [[Johann Sebastian Bach]]. It is an arrangement that Bach made in the 1740s of Pergolesi's [[Stabat Mater (Pergolesi)|Stabat Mater]] from 1736, slightly expanding the orchestral material. He used a German paraphrase of [[Psalm 51]] as text for his composition. While Bach named the work a ''[[Motet|Motetto]]'' in the [[Autograph (manuscript)|autograph]], it is rather a psalm cantata, scored for soprano and alto voices, strings and basso continuo. Some of the 14 [[Movement (music)|movements]] have become traditionally sung by a two-part choir. The work was published by [[Carus-Verlag]] in 1989. The work is interesting to scholars as an example how Bach edited music from a different tradition.{{sfn|Hellmann|1989|p=7}}
'''{{lang|de|Tilge, Höchster, meine Sünden}}''' (Cancel, Highest, my sins), '''{{abbr|BWV|Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis (catalogue of Bach's works)}}{{nbsp}}1083''', is a sacred vocal composition by [[Johann Sebastian Bach]]. It is an arrangement that Bach made in the 1740s of Pergolesi's [[Stabat Mater (Pergolesi)|Stabat Mater]] from 1736, slightly expanding the orchestral material. He used a German paraphrase of [[Psalm 51]] as text for his composition. While Bach named the work a ''[[Motet|Motetto]]'' in the [[Autograph (manuscript)|autograph]], it is rather a psalm cantata, scored for soprano and alto voices, strings and basso continuo. Some of the 14 [[Movement (music)|movements]] have become traditionally sung by a two-part choir. The work was first published by [[Hänssler]] in 1962, and in a critical edition based on Bach's performance material found only later by [[Carus-Verlag]] in 1989. The work is interesting to scholars as an example how Bach edited music from a different tradition.{{sfn|Hellmann|1989|p=7}}


== History and text ==
== History and text ==

Revision as of 09:59, 3 March 2023

Tilge, Höchster, meine Sünden
BWV 1083
Psalm cantata by J. S. Bach
EnglishCancel, Highest, my sins
Relatedbased on Pergolesi's 1736 Stabat Mater
Bible textparaphrase of Psalm 51
Performed1740s
Published1962 (1962)
Movements14
Vocal
Instrumental
  • 2 solo violins
  • 2 violins
  • viola
  • violone
  • cello
  • continuo

Tilge, Höchster, meine Sünden (Cancel, Highest, my sins), BWV 1083, is a sacred vocal composition by Johann Sebastian Bach. It is an arrangement that Bach made in the 1740s of Pergolesi's Stabat Mater from 1736, slightly expanding the orchestral material. He used a German paraphrase of Psalm 51 as text for his composition. While Bach named the work a Motetto in the autograph, it is rather a psalm cantata, scored for soprano and alto voices, strings and basso continuo. Some of the 14 movements have become traditionally sung by a two-part choir. The work was first published by Hänssler in 1962, and in a critical edition based on Bach's performance material found only later by Carus-Verlag in 1989. The work is interesting to scholars as an example how Bach edited music from a different tradition.[1]

History and text

Tilge, Höchster, meine Sünden is a musical parody of the Stabat Mater which Pergolesi had composed in 1736.[2] This setting was successful from the beginning, performed all over Europe and arranged frequently, for example by Johann Adam Hiller as a Passion cantata in 1774 to a translation of the original text by Klopstock.[1]

Bach used a different text, a German paraphrase of the penitential Psalm 51 by an unknown author.[2][3][4] The incipit translates as "Cancel, Highest, my sins".[5]

Bach wrote his version in the 1740s, slightly expanding the orchestral material. He named it a Motetto (motet) in the header of his manuscript.[6][7] It is a psalm cantata without assignment to a specific liturgical occasion.[2]

Bach's version was made c. 1745/1747. A first performance in 1746–1747 in Leipzig has been assumed.[5] Bach's performance of Tilge, Höchster, meine Sünden, before Pergolesi's work was printed for the first time in 1748, is the earliest demonstrable performance of this music by Pergolesi in Germany.[8]

Scoring and music

Bach's version is scored for soprano and alto voices, two concertante violin parts, two ripieno violin parts, viola, violone, cello, and basso continuo.[2]

Bach wrote ornamentation and melismas for the voices to express the German text better. The moods and "conceptual traits"[1] of the two texts are similar, but Bach moved Pergolesi's two movement preceeding the Amen to an earlier position, having to abandon the key sequence in the process.[1]

Bach's orchestration is richer than Pergolesi's original. Where in Pergolesi's version the viola often plays in unison with the continuo, Bach increases the independence of this instrument, thus creating the four-part harmony typical of his own style.[9]

Publication

The composition was forgotten, and probably first mentioned in a letter by organist Karl Straube in 1946. Critical research followed 15 years later.[1] As only a short manuscript was known, it was assume that Bach performed the work from the Pergolesi's original material, and a first publication by Hänssler in 1962. was based on this assumption.[1] However, Bach's performance material was found by Alfred Dürr a few years later, and a critical edition based on it was published by Carus-Verlag in 1989, edited by Diethard Hellmann.[10][11] It was revised in 2017.[11]

Recordings

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Hellmann 1989, p. 7.
  2. ^ a b c d Tilge, Höchster, meine Sünden BWV 1083 at Bach Digital
  3. ^ Lyrics of Tilge, Höchster, meine Sünden at Bach Digital
  4. ^ "Tilge, Höchster, meine Sünden" at The LiederNet Archive
  5. ^ a b Tilge, Höchester, meine Sünden at Bach Cantatas Website}}
  6. ^ "D-B Mus.ms. 30199, Fascicle 14". Bach Digital. Leipzig: Bach Archive; et al. 2020-01-31.
  7. ^ Platen 1961, p. 35.
  8. ^ Jürgen Heidrich. Protestantische Kirchenmusikanschauung in der zweiten Hälfte des 18. Jahrhunderts: Studien zur Ideengeschichte "wahrer" Kirchenmusik, p. 65. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2001 ISBN 978-3-525-27906-9
  9. ^ Clemens Romijn. Liner notes for Tilge, Höchster, meine Sünden BWV 1083 (after Pergolesi's Stabat Mater). Brilliant Classics, 2000. (2014 reissue: J. S. Bach Complete Edition. "Liner notes" p. 54)
  10. ^ Carus 2023.
  11. ^ a b Hellmann 1989, p. 10.

Sources

External links

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