Lord, as you will, be with me

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Bach cantata
Lord, as you will, be with me
BWV: 73
Occasion: 3rd Sunday after Epiphany
Year of origin: 1724
Place of origin: Leipzig
Genus: cantata
Solo : STB
Choir: SATB
Instruments : Co Ob 2Vl Va Bc
text
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Lord, as you will, so schicks mit mir ( BWV 73) is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach . He composed it in Leipzig in 1724 for the 3rd Sunday after Epiphany and performed it for the first time on January 23, 1724.

Story and words

In his first year in Leipzig, Bach wrote the cantata for the 3rd Sunday after Epiphany and performed it for the first time on January 23, 1724. The prescribed readings were Rom 12,17-21  LUT and Mt 8,1-13  LUT , the healing of a leper. The unknown lyricist takes the sick person's words “Lord, if you want, you can cleanse me” as a starting point for the recommendation to maintain this trusting attitude even in the face of death. In the first movement he adds three recitatives with me between the lines of the first stanza of Kaspar Bienemann's chorale Herr, as you like . The final chorale is the last stanza of Ludwig Helmbold's From God I will not give up .

Bach performed the cantata again in a revised version on January 21, 1748 or January 26, 1749.

Occupation and structure

The cantata is occupied by three soloists, soprano , tenor and bass , four-part choir in the chorales, horn (replaced by the organ in the revised version ), two oboes , two violins , viola and basso continuo .

  1. Chorale e recitativo (tenor, bass, soprano): Lord, as you will, be with me
  2. Aria (tenor, oboe): Oh, lower the spirit of joy
  3. Recitativo (bass): Oh, our will stays wrong,
  4. Aria (bass): Lord, if you will
  5. Chorale: That is the father's will

music

The opening chorus is based on the first stanza of Herr, as you will, send it to me , expanded by extensive recitatives by the three soloists. A four-tone motif on the words "Lord, as you will" is introduced by the horn and repeated throughout the piece. The accompagnato recitatives of all three soloists are accompanied by the oboes with material from the ritornello , while the horn and strings repeat the head motif here as well. The choir throws this motif into the last repetition of the ritornello and one last time in a final cadenza.

In sentence 3 the human will is described as contradicting, "sometimes defiant, sometimes despondent", and depicted accordingly in the melody, first up and then down in a leap. Movement 4 then begins immediately, without a ritornello. Three stanzas begin with the words "Lord, if you will". They are executed as free variations and concluded by a coda . As in the first sentence, a motif pervades the words "Lord, if you will". It is the beginning of the aria Are you with me from the little music book for Anna Magdalena Bach by Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel , which was long ascribed to Bach.

The final chorale has four voices and uses the melody known as "Une jeune Pucelle" or "Une jeune Fillette" and "La Monica", which was first published in 1557 by Jehan Chardavoine in Lyon.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Julian Mincham: Chapter 38 BWV 73 My God, how long, oh long ( English ) jsbachcantatas.com. 2010. Retrieved January 18, 2011.
  2. ↑ [ http://www.bach-cantatas.com/CM/Von-Gott-will-ich-nicht- Lassen.htm Chorale Melodies used in Bach's Vocal Works / Von Gott ich nicht Lassen] ( English ) bach-cantatas .com. Retrieved January 13, 2020.

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Secular cantatas

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Cantatas not preserved

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Passions

St. Matthew Passion (BWV 244) • St. John Passion (BWV 245) • St. Luke Passion (BWV 246) (Bach's authorship questioned) • St. Mark Passion (BWV 247)

Oratorios

Ascension Oratorio (BWV 11) • Christmas Oratorio (BWV 248) • Easter Oratorio (BWV 249)