It is salvation and we come here, BWV 9

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Bach cantata
It is salvation that we come here
BWV: 9
Occasion: 6th Sunday after Trinity
Year of origin: 1732?
Place of origin: Leipzig
Genus: cantata
Solo : SATB
Choir: SATB
Instruments : Ft Oa 2Vl Va Bc
text
unknown
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It is salvation and we come here ( BWV 9) is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach . He composed the choral cantata between 1732 and 1735 in Leipzig for the 6th Sunday after Trinity as a supplement to his second cantata cycle.

Story and words

Bach composed the cantata in Leipzig between 1732 and 1735 for the 6th Sunday after Trinity. When he formed his second cantata cycle from chorale cantatas in 1724, he was not in Leipzig that Sunday, but in Köthen , so he added this late cantata to the cycle. It is based on the Lutheran chorale Es ist das Heil unskommen by Paul Speratus , who appeared in 1524 in the Eight-Song Book , the first Lutheran hymnbook. The theme of the chant is a summary of the Lutheran teaching, as the first stanza already shows: "It is salvation and we come from grace and pure goodness. The works that never help ... faith looks at Jesus Christ,. .. he has become the mediator. "

The prescribed readings for Sunday were Rom 6 : 3-11  LUT , "Through Christ's death we died of sin", and Mt 5: 20-26 LUT , a section from the Sermon on the Mount about better righteousness compared to fulfilling  the law. An unknown lyricist translated 12 of the 14 stanzas into seven cantata movements, retaining the wording of the first and last stanzas, forming a recitative (2) out of stanzas 2-4 , a second (4) from stanzas 5-7 and the Verses 9-11 a third (6). Ideas from verse 8 became an aria (5), movement 3 is not derived directly from the chorale, but an intensification of the closing lines of movement 2. The three recitatives can be viewed as a sermon that is deepened by the inserted arias.

As early as 1716, Bach had verse 12 of the chorale for the conclusion of Mein Gott, wie lang, oh long? used, in 1723, the stanzas 12 and 11 for the conclusion of the two parts of anger you, oh soul, do not , and in 1724 stanza 11 for verily, verily, I say to you .

Occupation and structure

The cantata is made up of chamber music with four vocal soloists, soprano , alto , tenor and bass , four-part choir, flauto traverso , oboe d'amore , two violins , viola and basso continuo .

  1. Coro: It is salvation and we come here
  2. Recitativo (bass): God gave us a law
  3. Aria (tenor): We were already too low
  4. Recitativo (bass): But the law had to be fulfilled
  5. Aria (soprano, alto): Lord, you see instead of good works
  6. Recitativo (bass): When we recognize the sin from the law
  7. Choral: Whether it worked, as if he didn't want to

music

The opening choir is a choral fantasy, the voices are embedded line by line in an independent concerto of instruments. The cantus firmus of the chorale melody is long notes in the soprano, while the lower voices are imitated. The instrumentation with transverse flute and oboe d'amore is unusual, sometimes the first violin comes off the string tutti and takes part in the concerto.

All three recitatives are entrusted to the bass as the Vox Christi (voice of Christ) and are designed like a continuing sermon. The recitatives are secco , with the exception of the last line of sentence 4 "... and wraps tightly around Jesus' arms", which is intensified into an intimate arioso . The tenor aria depicts: "We were already too low". Alfred Dürr describes: "Down aspirant treble figures and syncopated rhythms paint the tumbling sinking into the abyss of sin." The duet "Lord, do you see instead of good works" for soprano and alto is flute, oboe d'amore and continuo quintet. It is set in artistic canonical imitation, but its melody makes it playful and relaxed.

The final chorale has four voices, but the lower parts are polyphonic.

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Individual evidence

  1. It is salvation and we come here / Text and Translation of Chorale . bach-cantatas.com. 2005. Retrieved July 25, 2011.
  2. James Leonard: Cantata No. 9, "It is salvation we come here," BWV 9 . Allmusic . 2011. Retrieved July 25, 2011.
  3. Chorale Melodies used in Bach's Vocal Works / It is salvation and we come here . bach-cantatas.com. 2005. Retrieved July 25, 2011.
  4. Product information ( Memento of the original from May 18, 2015 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. on the website of the JS Bach Foundation, accessed on April 30, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bachstiftung.ch