Happy time in the new league

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Bach cantata
Happy time in the new league
BWV: 83
Occasion: Virgin Mary Purification
Year of origin: 1724
Place of origin: Leipzig
Genus: cantata
Solo : ATB
Choir: SATB
Instruments : 2Co 2Ob Vs 2Vl Va Bc
text
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Enjoyed time in the new league ( BWV 83) is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach . He composed it in Leipzig for the festival Mariaereinigung and performed it for the first time on February 2, 1724.

Story and words

Bach wrote the cantata in his first year in Leipzig for the feast of the Purification of the Virgin and performed it for the first time on February 2, 1724. The prescribed readings were Mal 3,1–4  LUT and Lk 2,22–32  LUT , the representation of the Lord . The gospel briefly mentions the purification of Mary and elaborates on Simeon , who was prophesied that he would not die until he saw the Messiah.

His hymn of praise Nunc dimittis ("Lord, now you let your servant go in peace") is an integral part of Compline and the Anglican Evensong . The unknown lyricist only deals with this aspect of the festival and relates it to the situation of one's own death. The hymn of praise appears literally in the 2nd movement, supplemented by a recitative . Sentence 3 is a paraphrase of Heb 4:16  LUT . Sentence 4 takes up the last sentence of the Gospel, the final chorale expresses this thought in Martin Luther's words with the fourth stanza of his rewording of Simeon's hymn, With Fried and Freud I go there .

The work was Bach's first cantata for this festival; he performed it again in 1727. In 1725 he composed a chorale cantata Mit Fried und Freud ich go there, BWV 125 , on the entire Luther chorale, in 1727 he wrote his well-known solo cantata I have enough .

Occupation and structure

The cantata is festively occupied with three vocal soloists, alto , tenor and bass , four-part choir, two horns , two oboes , solo violin, two violins , viola and basso continuo .

  1. Aria (old): Happy time in the new covenant
  2. Aria (Chorale e recitativo, Bass): Lord, now you let your servant go in peace, as you said - what seems terrible to us as humans
  3. Aria (tenor): Hurry, heart, full of joy
  4. Recitativo (Alt): Yes, your faith still notices a lot of darkness
  5. Chorale: It is salvation and blessed light

music

The first da capo - Aria is richly decorated with the entire orchestra. Your first part celebrates the "happy time". The ritornello introduces a motif in ascending coloratura that is adopted by the alto part. The groups of instruments perform with each other, dominated by the virtuoso figuration of the solo violin. In the middle section, repetitions of the violin on open strings describe the ringing of the death bell to the words "the resting place, the grave".

According to Alfred Dürr, movement 2 is unique in Bach's cantatas. It contains the praise of Simeon, sung by the bass in the 8th psalm tone , while the strings accompany in unison and the continuo in canonical imitation. After the first verse of the hymn of praise, three recitative sections are structured by the canonical music, then the other verses of the hymn of praise follow. The use of the psalm tone was already considered old-fashioned in Bach's time.

In movement 3 the concert violin plays seemingly endless runs in triplets to illustrate the rush, the singing voice takes over the runs. A short secco recitative leads to the four-part final chorale. Bach had already used this in his early funeral cantata Actus tragicus (1707 or 1708).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Julian Mincham: Chapter 40: BWV 83 “Delighted Time in the New Covenant” ( English ) jsbachcantatas.com. 2010. Retrieved January 28, 2011.
  2. ↑ Product information  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the JS Bach Foundation, accessed on May 16, 2016.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.bachstiftung.ch  

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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)