To you, Lord, I will surrender to you

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I want to surrender to you, Lord, WAB 12, is a chorale composed by Anton Bruckner .

history

Bruckner composed the chorale around 1845 during a stay in Kronstdorf or at the beginning of a stay in St. Florian Monastery . The original manuscript, on which Bruckner also noted a Tantum ergo , WAB 43, is now in St. Florian Monastery.

Melody and lyrics

\ relative a '{\ key a \ major \ autoBeamOff a2 e fis e4 e d'2 cis cis4 (b) a2 \ fermata \ break fis (gis) from cis a4 (gis) fis2 d' b1 \ fermata \ break a2 ( e) fis gis a1 a gis2 fis e (fis) gis1 \ fermata \ break e dis2 cis b gis' cis dis4 (cis) bis1 \ fermata \ break r2 b cis b4 (a) gis1 \ fermata \ break r2 a gis a4 ( gis) fis1 \ fermata \ break r2 fis ed 'cis bbb a1 \ fermata \ bar "|." } \ addlyrics {To you, Lord, I want to surrender myself to you, whose property I am. Only __ you alone, you are my life and death will then be profit for me. I live - be __ you, I die - be you. Just be mine, that's enough for me.}

The chorale is exposed for a four-part choir (SATB) and consists of seven chorale lines.

The lines are unevenly long (4-7 bars) and deal with the surrender of the lyrical self to the Lord .

Lines 5 and 6 form an oxymoron ("I live for you - I die for you"), the effect of which is reinforced by the fact that both lines have the same rhythm and a general pause is prescribed at the beginning of the lines - the lyric self pauses briefly.

The chorale was used, among other things, in Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy's oratorio Paulus with a different melody. For this purpose, Julius Schubring suggested further editing of the text, which, however, was rejected by Mendelssohn. It was mainly about theological concretizations.

Discography

There are only a few recordings of the chorale:

  • Balduin Sulzer, Choir of the Linz Music High School, Wilhering Collegiate Church - Sacred Music - CD: Preiserrecords 90052CD, c. 1985
  • Thomas Kerbl, Chorvereinigung Bruckner 2011, Anton Bruckner: Lieder / Magnificat - CD: LIVA 046, 2011
  • Philipp von Steinäcker, Vocal Ensemble Musica Saeculorum, Bruckner: Pange lingua - Motets - CD: Fra Bernardo FB 1501271, 2015

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Armin Koch: Chorales and chorales in the work of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2003, ISBN 978-3-525-27911-3 , pp. 65 ( limited preview in Google Book search).