Break your bread to the hungry
| Bach cantata | |
|---|---|
| Break your bread to the hungry | |
| BWV: | 39 |
| Occasion: | 1st Sunday after Trinity |
| Year of origin: | 1726 |
| Place of origin: | Leipzig |
| Genus: | cantata |
| Solo : | SAB |
| Choir: | SATB |
| Instruments : | 2Fl 2Ob 2Vn Va Bc |
| List of Bach cantatas | |
Break your bread to the hungry ( BWV 39) is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach .
Emergence
The cantata was composed for the 1st Sunday after Trinity of 1726, June 23rd, and belongs to the third Leipzig cantatas year.
Topic and structure
The prescribed readings for Sunday were 1 Joh 4,16-21 LUT , “God is love”, and Lk 16,19–31 LUT , the parable of the rich man and poor Lazarus . The theme of the cantata, based on the Gospel, is the call to love one's neighbor, in the 1st sentence from the Old Testament according to Isa 58,7-8 LUT , in the central 4th sentence from the New Testament according to Heb 13:16 LUT . The text of the final chorale is the 6th stanza of the song Come, let the gentlemen teach you (1648) by David Denicke . The poet of the recitatives and arias is unknown.
- Coro: Break your bread to the hungry
- Recitativo (bass): The rich god
- Aria (alto, violin and oboe): still on earth to his creator
- (Bass): Do not forget to do good and to communicate
- Aria (soprano, recorders): Most I have
- Recitativo (alto, strings): How should I tell you, oh Lord
- Chorale: Blessed are those out of mercy
Formally, the seven-movement cantata consists of two parts, which were performed before and after the sermon. It is arranged symmetrically around the 4th movement, which begins the second part and is entrusted to the bass soloist. As a haunting song between arioso and aria, it resembles Bach's setting of Jesus' words in his passions. Movements 1 and 7 are choral, 2 and 6 recitatives, 3 and 5 two-part arias. The opening chorus follows the text in a complex three-part structure, the first and third parts of which each consist of three sections.
occupation
- Singing parts: soprano , alto and bass solos , four-part tutti
- Orchestra: recorder I / II, oboe I / II, violin I / II, viola , basso continuo
literature
- Alfred Dürr : Johann Sebastian Bach: The Cantatas. Bärenreiter, Kassel 1999, ISBN 3-7618-1476-3
- Werner Neumann : Handbook of JS Bach's Cantatas , 1947, 5th edition 1984, ISBN 3-7651-0054-4
- Hans-Joachim Schulze : The Bach Cantatas: Introductions to all of Johann Sebastian Bach's cantatas . Leipzig: Evangelical publishing company; Stuttgart: Carus-Verlag 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
- Break your bread to the hungry, BWV 39 : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
- BWV 39 Break your bread to the hungry Text, structure and composition on the personal homepage of Walter F. Bischof at the University of Alberta
