mind and soul are confused
| Bach cantata | |
|---|---|
| mind and soul are confused | |
| BWV: | 35 |
| Occasion: | 12. Sunday after Trinity |
| Year of origin: | 1726 |
| Place of origin: | Leipzig |
| Genus: | cantata |
| Solo : | Old solo |
| Instruments : | 2Ob Ot Org 2Vn Va Bc |
| text | |
| Georg Christian Lehms | |
| List of Bach cantatas | |
Mind and soul get confused , BWV 35, is a sacred cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach . He composed the solo cantata for alto in 1726 in Leipzig for the 12th Sunday after Trinity and performed it for the first time on September 8, 1726.
Bach composed the cantata in his fourth year as Thomaskantor in Leipzig. The text is based on the prescribed readings for Sunday, namely the passage from the Gospel of Mark dealing with the healing of the deaf and mute. The lyricist is Georg Christian Lehms , whose cantata texts Bach had already set to music during his time as concertmaster at the court of Weimar . The text quotes ideas from the Gospel and develops the analogy that just as the ear and tongue of the deaf and mute were opened, the believer should be opened to see the wonderful works of God. Bach's cantatas for Sunday have a consistently positive character, which the composer underscored in earlier works with the participation of trumpets, while in this cantata an obbligato organ provides a shine.
The cantata consists of seven movements in two parts, which were played before and after the sermon. Both parts are introduced by an instrumental symphonia with a concert organ, which are probably based on concert movements from the Weimar or Köthen period. The alto soloist sings a number of alternating arias and recitatives and is accompanied by the organ as an equal partner in all three arias. The orchestra is made up of two oboes , waist , strings and basso continuo . The alto part is demanding and was probably written for a capable singer, like two other cantatas of the period.
Story and words
In his fourth year as Thomaskantor in Leipzig, Bach composed the cantata for the 12th Sunday after Trinity. It is counted as part of his third cantata cycle. The prescribed readings for Sunday were 2 Cor 3, 4–11 LUT , Paul on the “clarity of the spirit”, and Mk 7,31–37 LUT , the healing of a deaf and mute. The text comes from Georg Christian Lehms and was published in 1711 in the cantatas year Gottgefälliges Kirchen-Opffer . The text takes the healing of the deaf and mute as the starting point for thoughts that the believer becomes deaf and dumb when he looks in awe at miracles like healing and creation. The text of the second aria quotes the last verse of the Gospel almost verbatim. Bach had already written his first solo church cantata, Resist the Sins , in Weimar on a text by Lehms, also for an alto part.
The cantata is one of three composed in 1726 in which an alto is the only solo part, along with delighted calm, beloved lust for the soul and God alone should have my heart . It can be assumed that Bach had a capable singer available at the time.
Bach had already composed two cantatas for the 12th Sunday after Trinity, in the first year in Leipzig Praise the Lord, my soul , performed for the first time on August 15, 1723, and in his third year there Praise the Lord, the mighty King of Honor , first performed on August 19, 1725 as an addendum to the cycle of chorale cantatas. Both works focus on praise , which is highlighted by festive trumpets in the orchestra.
The cantata Geist und Seele wird bewret contains two extended concertante movements for organ and orchestra, which are probably based on lost concert movements for keyboard instrument, oboe or violin. The first nine bars of the first sinfonia correspond to the BWV 1059 fragment .
Bach conducted the first performance on September 8, 1726 and probably took over the organ part himself.
Structure and occupation
Bach divided the cantata into two parts, four movements to be performed before the sermon, three after the sermon. Both parts begin with a sinfonia. Bach composed the cantata for alto voice, two oboes, waist, organ, two violins, viola and basso continuo .
- Sinfonia
- Aria: Mind and soul get confused
- Recitativo: I wonder
- Aria: God made everything good
- Sinfonia
- Recitative: Ah, strong God
- Aria: I only wish to live with God
literature
- Alfred Dürr : Johann Sebastian Bach: The Cantatas. Bärenreiter, Kassel 1999, ISBN 3-7618-1476-3 .
- Dietrich Kilian: Bach, you songs. Piano reduction based on the Urtext of the New Bach Edition. 1965.
- Werner Neumann : Handbook of the cantatas by JS Bach. 1947, 5th edition 1984, ISBN 3-7651-0054-4 .
- Hans-Joachim Schulze: The Bach Cantatas: Introductions to all of Johann Sebastian Bach's cantatas. Evangelische Verlags-Anstalt, Leipzig; Carus-Verlag, Stuttgart 2006, (Edition Bach-Archiv Leipzig) ISBN 3-374-02390-8 (Evang. Verl.-Anst.), ISBN 3-89948-073-2 (Carus-Verl.)
- Christoph Wolff , Ton Koopman : The world of Bach cantatas. Verlag JB Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2006, ISBN 978-3-476-02127-4 .
Web links
- BWV 35 Geist und Seele becomes bewret Text, structure and composition on the personal homepage of Walter F. Bischof at the University of Alberta
- Materials on BWV 35 at Bach Digital of the Bach Archives Leipzig
- Mind and soul get confused, BWV 35 : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
- Mind and soul get confused Bach website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Julian Mincham: Chapter 23 BWV 35 Geist und Seele sind bewildered / Soul and Spirit are bewildered ( English ) 2010. Retrieved on August 11, 2015.
- ^ A b c John Eliot Gardiner : Cantatas for the Twelfth Sunday after Trinity / Jakobskirche, Köthen ( English ) Bach Cantatas. Pp. 6-9. 2007. Retrieved August 11, 2015.
- ↑ a b Klaus Hofmann : Spirit and soul are confused, BWV 35 / Spirit and soul become confused . Bach Cantatas. Pp. 14-15. 2007. Retrieved August 11, 2015.
- ^ A b Alfred Dürr : The cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach , 4th. Edition, Volume 1, Deutscher Taschenbuchverlag, 1981, ISBN 3-423-04080-7 , pp. 420-422.
- ↑ Craig Smith: Bach Cantata Notes BWV 35 ( English ) Emmanuel Music. Retrieved August 11, 2015.
- ↑ Mind and soul get confused BWV 35; BC A 125 / Sacred Cantata (12th Sunday after Trinity) . bach-digital.de. Retrieved August 11, 2015.
- ↑ Walter F. Bischof: BWV 35 Spirit and soul is confused ( English ) University of Alberta. Retrieved August 11, 2015.
- ↑ Aryeh Oron: Cantata BWV 35 Mind and soul are confused ( English ) Bach Cantatas. Retrieved August 11, 2015.
