An undyed mind
| Bach cantata | |
|---|---|
| An undyed mind | |
| BWV: | 24 |
| Occasion: | 4th Sunday after Trinity |
| Year of origin: | 1723 |
| Place of origin: | Leipzig |
| Genus: | Church cantata |
| Solo : | ATB |
| Choir: | SATB |
| Instruments : | Cl 2Oa 2Vn Va Bc |
| text | |
| Erdmann Neumeister , Johann Heermann | |
| List of Bach cantatas | |
An undyed mind ( BWV 24) is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach . He wrote it in Leipzig for the fourth Sunday after Trinity and performed it for the first time on June 20, 1723. It is the third newly composed cantata in his first annual cycle.
Story and words
In his first year in Leipzig, Bach composed the cantata for the fourth Sunday after Trinity as the third new cantata in his first annual cycle, which he had started on the first Sunday after Trinity when he took office with Die Elenden shall eat . The prescribed readings were as Epistle Rom 8,18-23 LUT , “All creatures long with us for the revelation of the children of God”, and as Gospel Lk 6,36–42 LUT , from the Sermon on the Mount, “Exercise mercy, do not judge ". It seems likely that Bach had not yet found a new lyricist in Leipzig, because he resorted to a text by Erdmann Neumeister that had already appeared in the Spiritual Poetry Collection in 1714 with mixed biblical sayings and chorals . In a symmetrical composition Neumeister placed a word from the Bible in the middle, a quote from the Sermon on the Mount according to Matthew Mt 7,12 LUT , "Now whatever you want the people to do to you, they do it too". He framed it with two recitatives , this with two arias . The subject of the first recitative is “The Righteousness”, which is “one of the gifts of God”. Opposed to it is “Die Hypocrisy”, a “Brood that healed Belial”. The poetry on the theme of Christians Doing and Trading was judged to be too instructive. The cantata ends with the first stanza of Johann Heermann's song O Gott, du pious God (1630).
Bach first performed the cantata on June 20, 1723. It is likely that during the same service he also conducted the earlier cantata Barmherziges Herz der Ewigen Liebe , which he composed for the same occasion in Weimar in 1715 . On the three previous Sundays he had performed two-part cantatas, the new works The poor should eat and The heavens tell the glory of God, as well as the earlier I had much distress . On the fourth Sunday the new cantata was probably played before the sermon and the older one after the sermon.
Occupation and structure
The cantata consists of three vocal soloists, alto , tenor and bass , four-part choir, clarino , two oboes , two oboe d'amore , two violins , viola and basso continuo .
- Aria (alto): an undyed mind
- Recitativo (tenor): Righteousness is one of the gifts of God
- Coro: Anything you want now
- Recitativo (bass): The hypocrisy is a brood
- Aria (tenor): Faithful and truth be the reason
- Chorale: O God, you godly God
music
In his composition, Bach gives weight to the central biblical phrase by letting the choir sing it, while the framing sentences are filled with chamber music. The obligato part of the first aria is played in unison by the violins and violas and is similar to the material of the singing part. The following recitative, which resembles a short sermon, is secco and ends as arioso .
The central choral movement consists of two sections, the entire text is initially presented freely, then as a fugue , comparable to the concept of prelude and fugue. Two oboes double the strings, a clarino plays an independent part. The joint is a double joint, called " vivace allegro ". The initially singing “concertists” are initially only accompanied by the continuo, then the movement increases through the choir and orchestra and reaches its climax with the clarino as the fifth part.
The structure of the following recitative is similar to the first, but it is accented by strings. It also ends as Arioso, without the strings, and thus emphasizes the prayer "May God protect me!". The last aria is accompanied by two oboes d'amore. The tenor sings an unusual coloratura on the last words “Make us equal to God and angels”, perhaps to indicate the “multitude of heavenly hosts”.
The eight lines of the final chorale are sung in four parts, each framed by instrumental parts and accompanied by the orchestra. Bach found this kind of chorale treatment with his predecessor in Leipzig, Johann Kuhnau . The last prayer asks for "an unharmed soul and a clear conscience".
Recordings
- LP / CD
- Bach Made in Germany Vol. 1 - Cantatas VI. Günther Ramin , Thomanerchor , Gewandhausorchester , Eva Fleischer , Gert Lutze, Hans Hauptmann . Leipzig Classics, 1952.
- JS Bach: Das Kantatenwerk - Sacred Cantatas Vol. 2. Nikolaus Harnoncourt , Vienna Boys Choir , Chorus Viennensis , Concentus Musicus Vienna , Paul Esswood , Kurt Equiluz , Max van Egmond . Teldec , 1973.
- Bach Cantatas Vol. 3 - Ascension Day, Whitsun, Trinity. Karl Richter , Munich Bach Choir , Munich Bach Orchestra , Anna Reynolds , Peter Schreier , Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau . Archive production , 1975.
- The Bach Cantata Vol. 41. Helmuth Rilling , Gächinger Kantorei , Bach-Collegium Stuttgart , Arleen Augér , Helen Watts , Adalbert Kraus , Wolfgang Schöne . Hänssler, 1978.
- JS Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 7. Ton Koopman , Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir , Bogna Bartosz, Gerd Türk, Klaus Mertens . Antoine Marchand, 1997.
- JS Bach: Cantatas Vol. 9 - Leipzig Cantatas. Masaaki Suzuki , Bach Collegium Japan , Robin Blaze , Gerd Türk, Chiyuki Urano. UP, 1998.
- Bach Cantatas Vol. 3: Tewkesbury / Mühlhausen. John Eliot Gardiner , Monteverdi Choir , English Baroque Soloists , Nathalie Stutzmann , Paul Agnew, Nicolas Testé . Soli Deo Gloria, 2000.
- Bach Edition Vol. 21 - Cantatas Vol. 12. Pieter Jan Leusink , Holland Boys Choir, Netherlands Bach Collegium, Sytse Buwalda, Marcel Beekman , Bas Ramselaar. Brilliant Classics, 2000.
- DVD
- Johann Sebastian Bach: An undyed mind. Cantata BWV 24. Rudolf Lutz , choir and orchestra of the JS Bach Foundation , Marianne Beate Kielland (soprano), Daniel Johannsen (tenor), Dominik Wörner (bass). Including an introductory workshop and reflection by Aleida Assmann . Gallus Media, 2017.
literature
- Aleida Assmann : The Bach cantata "An undyed mind" - a musical guide to civility , in: dies .: Human rights and human obligations . Looking for a new social contract. Vienna 2017. pp. 50–56.
- Alfred Dürr : Johann Sebastian Bach: The Cantatas. Bärenreiter, Kassel 1999, ISBN 3-7618-1476-3 .
- Werner Neumann : Handbook of the cantatas Johann Sebastian 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 2006, ISBN 3-374-02390-8 ; Carus-Verlag, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-89948-073-2 (Edition Bach Archive Leipzig)
- Christoph Wolff , Ton Koopman : The world of Bach cantatas . Verlag J. B. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2006, ISBN 978-3-476-02127-4 .
Web links
- An undyed mind, BWV 24 : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
- Cantata BWV 24 An undyed mind at Bach Cantatas (English)
- An undyed mind on the Bach.de website
- BWV 24 An undyed text, structure and composition on the personal homepage of Walter F. Bischof at the University of Alberta
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Klaus Hofmann: An undyed mind, BWV 24 (PDF; 3.0 MB) bach-cantatas.com. 1998. Retrieved June 26, 2012.
- ↑ Christoph Wolff : Bach: Essays on his Life and Music ( English ) 1991, p. 30 (accessed on June 21, 2012).
- ↑ a b c d Christoph Wolff : On the first annual cycle of Bach's cantatas for the Leipzig liturgy (1723-24) (II) ( English , PDF; 11.8 MB) bach-cantatas.com. S. 16. 1997. Retrieved June 27, 2012.
- ↑ O God, you pious God / Text and Translation of Chorale ( English ) bach-cantatas.com. 2008. Retrieved June 25, 2012.
- ↑ a b c d John Eliot Gardiner : Cantatas for the Fourth Sunday after Trinity / Tewkesbury Abbey ( English , PDF; 123 kB) bach-cantatas.com. S. 3. 2008. Accessed June 27, 2012.
- ↑ a b Julian Mincham: Chapter 5 BWV 24 An undyed mind ( English ) jsbachcantatas.com. 2010. Retrieved June 27, 2012.
- ↑ Chorale Melodies used in Bach's Vocal Works / O Gott, du pious God / Melody 2 ( English ) bach-cantatas.com. 2005. Retrieved June 27, 2012.
- ↑ Booklet ( Memento of the original from December 1, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file) on the JS Bach Foundation website, accessed on May 17, 2017.
