Thank God! now the year is coming to an end
| Bach cantata | |
|---|---|
| Thank God! now the year is coming to an end | |
| BWV: | 28 |
| Occasion: | Sunday after Christmas |
| Year of origin: | 1725 |
| Place of origin: | Leipzig |
| Genus: | cantata |
| Solo : | SATB |
| Choir: | SATB |
| Instruments : | Cn 3Tb 2Ob Ot 2Vl Va Bc |
| text | |
| Erdmann Neumeister | |
| List of Bach cantatas | |
Thank God! now the year is coming to an end ( BWV 28) is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach . He composed it in Leipzig in 1725 for the Sunday after Christmas and performed it for the first time on December 30, 1725.
Story and words
In his third year in office in Leipzig, Bach composed the cantata for the Sunday after Christmas. The prescribed readings for Sunday were Gal 4,1–7 LUT and Lk 2,33–40 LUT .
The cantata text is by Erdmann Neumeister . In the second movement he used the first stanza of Johann Gramann's chorale Nun lob, mein Seel, den Herren (1530), in the third movement Jer 1,32-41 Lut and a chorale verse by Paul Eber for the final chorale. The chorale theme "Help me praise God's goodness" comes from an unknown author. Neumeister did not use the day's Bible readings, but used motifs of thanks for the past year and receipt of the new year.
Bach first performed the cantata on December 30, 1725.
Occupation and structure
The cantata is made up of four soloists, soprano , alto , tenor and bass , four or five-part choir , zinc , three trombones , two oboes , one oboe d'amore , two violins , viola and basso continuo .
- Aria (soprano) “Thank God! now the year is coming to an end "
- Choral "Well praise, my soul, the gentlemen", large-scale choral motette with colla parte instrumentation
- Recitativo e arioso (bass): This is what the Lord says
- Recitativo (tenor): God is a source
- Aria duetto (alto and tenor): God has blessed us this year
- Chorale: All such your goodness we praise
literature
- Alfred Dürr : Johann Sebastian Bach: The Cantatas. Bärenreiter, Kassel 1999, ISBN 3-7618-1476-3
- Werner Neumann : Handbook of the cantatas JSBachs , 1947, 5. Auf. 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-Verlag)
- Christoph Wolff / Ton Koopman : The world of Bach cantatas Verlag JB Metzler, Stuttgart, Weimar 2006 ISBN 978-3-476-02127-4
Web links
- Thank God! Now the year is coming to an end, BWV 28 : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
- BWV 28 Thank God! now the year is coming to an end Text, structure and composition on Walter F. Bischof's personal homepage at the University of Alberta
