They will put you under their spell, BWV 44

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Bach cantata
They will put you under their spell
BWV: 44
Occasion: Sunday after Ascension
Year of origin: 1724
Place of origin: Leipzig
Genus: Church cantata
Solo : SATB
Choir: SATB
Instruments : 2Ob 2Vl Va Bc
text
unknown, Martin Moller , Paul Fleming
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They will put you under their spell ( BWV 44) is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach . He wrote it in Leipzig for the Sunday after Ascension Day and performed it for the first time on May 21, 1724.

Story and words

In his first year in Leipzig, Bach composed the cantata for the Sunday after Ascension Day. The prescribed readings for Sunday were 1 Pet 4,8-11  LUT , "serve one another", and Joh 15,26  LUT to Joh 16,4  LUT from Jesus' farewell speeches, the promise of the Holy Spirit as support and the announcement of persecution . The unknown poet begins with a quote from the Gospel. The text of the cantata by Christiana Mariana von Ziegler for Bach's work on the same occasion in the following year, They will cast a spell on you, BWV 183 , begins with the same quotation, but otherwise both cantatas have little in common. The poet considers the persecution of Christians, summarized by Martin Moller's Oh God, like many a heartache as sentence 4. In sentence 5, the poet mentions the Antichrist as the cause , who considers the persecution of Christians to be a work pleasing to God. In sentence 6 God's help is promised to the persecuted. The final chorale is the last stanza of Paul Fleming's In All My Actions .

Bach first performed the cantata on May 21, 1724. It is his last new composition in his first cantata cycle. For the other occasions up to the beginning of the second annual cycle on the first Sunday after Trinity , he reworked older compositions.

Occupation and structure

The cantata consists of four soloists, soprano , alto , tenor and bass , four-part choir, two oboes , two violins , viola and basso continuo .

  1. Duetto (tenor, bass): They will cast a spell over you
  2. Coro: But the time will come
  3. Aria (old): Christians must be on earth
  4. Chorale (tenor): Oh God, how many a heartache
  5. Recitativo (bass): The Antichrist is looking for
  6. Aria (soprano): It is and remains the comfort of Christians
  7. Chorale: So be now, soul, yours

music

Unusual in Bach, but often in Georg Philipp Telemann , is the division of the biblical quotation into two movements, a duet and an immediately following contrasting choral movement. The duet is an expressive lament that is introduced in imitation by the oboes with themes that are taken up by the singing voices. The excited choir has been compared to the turbae in Bach's Passions. The third movement picks up on the mood of the first movement in a calm 3/4 time with obbligato oboe. The words "torture, spell and severe pain" are expressed through expressive chromaticism, although the text speaks of their overcoming. The commenting chorale to the almost undecorated melody of “Herr Jesu Christ, mein Lebens Licht” is sung by the tenor to an ostinato in continuo, which is derived from the first line of the chorale. The following short secco recitative brings a twist and leads to a comforting, dance-like aria . The cantata ends with a four-part chorale to the melody of O World, I must leave you , which resembles movement 10 of the St. Matthew Passion , “It's me, I should atone”.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Oh God, how many Herzeleid / Text and Translation of Chorale bei Bach Cantatas (English)
  2. ↑ In all my deeds / Text and Translation of Chorale by Bach Cantatas (English)
  3. ↑ Julian Mincham: Chapter 56 BWV 44 They will cast a spell over you . jsbachcantatas.com. 2010. Retrieved May 15, 2012.
  4. ↑ a b Klaus Hofmann: They will put you under the spell (I) / (They shall put you out of the synagogues (1)), BWV44 (PDF; 4.6 MB) bach-cantatas.com. 2001. Retrieved May 15, 2012.
  5. ↑ Chorale Melodies used in Bach's Vocal Works / Herr (or O) Jesu Christ, meins Lebens Licht bei Bach Cantatas (English)
  6. ↑ Chorale Melodies used in Bach's Vocal Works / O world, I must let you / Now all forests rest at Bach Cantatas (English)
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Passions

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Oratorios

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