Everything born of God
| Bach cantata | |
|---|---|
| Everything born of God | |
| BWV: | 80a |
| Occasion: | Oculi, 3rd Sunday of Lent |
| Year of origin: | 1715 or 1716 |
| Place of origin: | Weimar |
| Genus: | cantata |
| Choir: | SATB |
| text | |
| Salomon Franck , Martin Luther | |
| List of Bach cantatas | |
Everything Born of God ( BWV 80a) is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach . He composed it in 1715 or 1716 in Weimar for Sunday Oculi, the third Sunday of Lent . The music is lost, but Bach used four movements for his later choral cantata for the Reformation Festival , A strong castle is our God, BWV 80 .
Story and words
Bach composed the cantata in Weimar for the Sunday Oculi. Your music is lost. The prescribed readings for Sunday were Eph 5,1–9 LUT , “Admonition to a pure way of life”, and Lk 11,14–28 LUT , “He drives out devils through Beelzebub”. The cantata text by Salomon Franck was published in 1715 in "Evangelisches Andachts-Opffer". The text of the first sentence changes from 1 John 5,4 LUT , "For everything that is born of God overcomes the world". The final chorale is the second stanza of Martin Luther's song A solid castle is our god .
Alfred Dürr suggested March 24, 1715 as the presumed date of the first performance, while Klaus Hofmann suggested March 15, 1716.
In Leipzig, Bach was unable to perform the music on the intended occasion because the tempus clausum was observed during the Passion . He expanded it around 1730 to his choral cantata for the Reformation festival A strong castle is our god, BWV 80 . From the first two movements, aria and recitative , he developed movements 2 and 3 of the later work, from movements 4 and 5, recitative and aria, movements 6 and 7.
construction
- Aria: Everything born of God
- Recitativo: Consider, child of God, such great love
- Aria: Come to the house of my heart
- Recitativo: So stand by Christ's blood-colored flag
- Aria: How blessed is the body
- Chorale: Nothing is done with our power
music
Although the music is lost, it can be deduced from BWV 80. The first aria presumably contained an instrumental cantus firmus of the melody A firm castle is our god , which in BWV 80 is sung by the soprano to the text of the second stanza. Both recitatives start secco and end as arioso . The first emphasizes the text “that Christ's spirit is firmly united with you”, the second “your Savior remains your refuge”. The final chorale is a simple four-part movement.
In 2010 the first performance of a reconstruction of the Bach Collegium Zurich, which was created in collaboration with the Leipzig Bach Archive . Marni Schwonberg , Ulrike Andersen , Bernhard Hunziker and Dominik Wörner sang under the direction of Hunziker.
Web links
- Cantata BWV 80a Everything that was born of God on the bach-cantatas website
- Everything that was born of God on the Bach.de website
- BWV 80a Everything that was born of God Text, structure and composition on the personal homepage of Walter F. Bischof at the University of Alberta
Individual evidence
- ^ Alfred Dürr , Richard DP Jones: The Cantatas of JS Bach: With Their Librettos in German-English Parallel Text ( English ). Oxford University Press, 2006 (Retrieved March 12, 2012).
- ^ Thomas Schacher: Reconstruction / A lost Bach cantata in the Wasserkirche , Neue Zürcher Zeitung. March 9, 2010. Retrieved November 29, 2012.
