Everything just according to God's will
| Bach cantata | |
|---|---|
| Everything just according to God's will | |
| BWV: | 72 |
| Occasion: | 3rd Sunday after Epiphany |
| Year of origin: | 1726 |
| Place of origin: | Leipzig |
| Genus: | cantata |
| Solo : | SAB |
| Choir: | SATB |
| Instruments : | 2Ob 2Vl Va Bc |
| text | |
| Salomon Franck | |
| List of Bach cantatas | |
Everything just according to God's will ( BWV 72) is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach . He composed it in Leipzig in 1726 for the third Sunday after Epiphany , January 27, 1726. Bach later used the opening chorus for the Gloria of his Mass in G minor , BWV 235.
Origin and Words
Bach wrote the cantata in his third cantatas cycle in Leipzig in 1726 for the 3rd Sunday after Epiphany , January 27, 1726. The prescribed readings are Rom 12.17–21 LUT and Mt 8.1-13 LUT . The cantata text was published by Salomon Franck in Weimar in Evangelisches Andachts-Opffer as early as 1715 . Bach only set it to music in Leipzig, similar to the cantata you, which you call yourself by Christo . The final chorale Was my God wants, das g'scheh allzeit was written by Albrecht von Prussia in 1547. The melody by Claudin de Sermisy first appeared in 1528 in the collection of songs Trente et quatre chansons . Bach had taken the chorale as a basis for his chorale cantata Was mein Gott wants, das g'scheh allzeit, BWV 111 , for the same Sunday a year earlier .
Bach later reworked the opening chorus into the Gloria of his Mass in G minor , BWV 235.
Occupation and structure
The cantata is set for three soloists, soprano , alto and bass , four-part choir, two oboes , two violins , viola and basso continuo .
- Coro: Everything just according to God's will
- Recitativo and Arioso (alto, violins): O selger Christ, who always does his will
- Aria (alto, violins): With everything I have and am
- Recitativo (bass): So believe now
- Aria (soprano, oboe, strings): My Jesus wants to do it, he wants to sweeten your cross
- Choral: What my God wants, that always happens
music
Although Franck had called the first movement an aria, Bach set it to music as a choral movement. An instrumental ritornello is dominated by two-bar sixteenth-note figures from the violins, which are also taken up by the continuo towards the end. The figures take over the voices on the word everything , first the soprano, then the others bar by bar. In a quieter middle section on the words of God's will , canonical imitations of the voices by the orchestra are accompanied. The next words with clouds and sunshine are again drawn in with figures as at the beginning, but starting in a lower position. The first and last sections end with the choir built into the ritornello.
In his adaptation for the Gloria of the Mass, Bach left out the introductory ritornello for use in the liturgy . He put the words Gloria in excelsis Deo in the first part, Et in terra pax in the middle part and Laudamus te in the last part.
The first recitative begins secco , but develops into the arioso on the words Herr, if you will , which are repeated nine times, each time with a different continuation, culminating in I won't die .
In the following aria , the singing voice begins immediately, followed by an unusual ritornello, a fugue of violins and continuo.
In the second aria with a song-like dance character, the instruments play a ritornello and repeat it according to a brief motto : My Jesus wants to do it, he wants to sweeten your cross . In the main part, the singing voice is embedded in the ritornello. In the middle part, Though your heart lies in much distress, is expressed by minor opacity. After another ritornello, the singing voice finally repeats: my Jesus wants to do it .
The final chorale is four-part.
Recordings
- Bach Made in Germany Vol. 1 - Cantatas III , Günther Ramin , Thomanerchor , Gewandhausorchester Leipzig , boy soloists, Hans Hauptmann, Leipzig Classics 1956
- The Bach Cantata Vol. 24 , Helmuth Rilling , Figural Choir of the Gedächtniskirche Stuttgart , Bach-Collegium Stuttgart , Arleen Augér , Hildegard Laurich, Wolfgang Schöne , Hänssler 1972
- Les Grandes Cantates de JS Bach Vol. 29 , Fritz Werner , Heinrich Schütz Choir Heilbronn , Württemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn , Ingeborg Reichelt , Barbara Scherler, Bruce Abel, Erato 1973
- JS Bach: Das Kantatenwerk - Sacred Cantatas Vol. 4 , Nikolaus Harnoncourt , Tölzer Knabenchor , Concentus Musicus Wien , boy soprano Wilhelm Wiedl, Paul Esswood , Ruud van der Meer, Teldec 1977
- JS Bach: Cantatas for the 3rd Sunday of Epiphany , John Eliot Gardiner , Monteverdi Choir , English Baroque Soloists , Joanne Lunn, Sara Mingardo , Stephen Varcoe , Archiv Produktion 2000
- JS Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 19 , Ton Koopman , Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir , Sandrine Piau , Bogna Bartosz, Klaus Mertens , Antoine Marchand 2002
literature
- Alfred Dürr : Johann Sebastian Bach: The Cantatas. Bärenreiter, Kassel 1999, ISBN 3-7618-1476-3 and Deutscher Taschenbuchverlag, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-423-04431-4 .
- 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-Verlag).
- Christoph Wolff , Ton Koopman : The world of Bach cantatas . Verlag JB Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2006, ISBN 978-3-476-02127-4 .
Web links
- Everything just according to God's will, BWV 72 : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
- Cantata BWV 72 Everything just according to God's will in Bach Cantatas (English)
- Everything just according to God's will, BWV 72 on the Bach website
- BWV 72 Everything just according to God's will Text, structure and composition on the personal homepage of Walter F. Bischof at the University of Alberta
Individual evidence
- ↑ Margaret Steinitz: Bach's Latin Church Music ( en ) London Bach Society. Retrieved September 16, 2010.
