Keep in the memory of Jesus Christ

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Bach cantata
Keep in the memory of Jesus Christ
BWV: 67
Occasion: Quasimodogeniti
Year of origin: 1724
Place of origin: Leipzig
Genus: Church cantata
Solo : ATB
Choir: SATB
Instruments : Ct Ft 2Oa 2Vl Va Bc
text
unknown, Nikolaus Herman , Jakob Ebert
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Halt im Gedächtnis Jesum Christ ( BWV 67) is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach . He wrote it in Leipzig for Quasimodogeniti , the 1st Sunday after Easter, and performed it for the first time on April 16, 1724.

Story and words

Bach composed the cantata in his first year in Leipzig , after his St. John Passion , for the Sunday Quasimodogeniti. The prescribed readings for Sunday were 1 Jn 5 : 4-10  LUT , "our faith is the victory that has overcome the world", and Jn 20 : 19–31  LUT , the appearance of Jesus to the disciples in Jerusalem after his resurrection , first without Thomas , then with him. The unknown lyricist begins with a verse from the 2nd letter to Timothy ( 2 Tim 2,8  LUT ). The poet sees the analogy of Thomas and the doubting Christian in general.

In the middle of the cantata is the Easter song The glorious day of Nikolaus Herman (1560), which praises the day of the resurrection, is published. In contrast, sentence 5 sees the danger from enemies until sentence 6 Jesus appears, like the disciples in Jerusalem, and brings peace. The line “Peace be with you” appears in four sections that frame three stanzas of a poem. The final chorale is the 1st stanza of Jakob Ebert's song “Du Friedefürst, Herr Jesu Christ”, which Bach later arranged in the chorale cantata BWV 116 of the same name .

Occupation and structure

The cantata is made up of three vocal soloists ( alto , tenor and bass ), a four-part choir, corno da tirarsi , flauto traverso , two oboe d'amore , two violins , viola and basso continuo .

  1. Coro: Stop in the memory of Jesus Christ
  2. Aria (tenor): My Jesus is risen
  3. Recitative (Alto): My Jesus, you are called the poison of death
  4. Choral: The glorious day has appeared
  5. Recitative (Alto): But it almost seems
  6. Aria (Bass, Coro): Peace be with you
  7. Chorale: You Prince of Peace, Lord Jesus Christ

music

The opening chorus, like the entire cantata, examines the conflict between hope and resurrection on the one hand, and memory and doubt on the other. The choral movement is symmetrically divided into seven sections, starting with an instrumental sinfonia of all instruments. The horn introduces a theme that stands for the commemoration of the death of Jesus and recalls the melody of the passion chorale “ O Lamb of God, innocent ”, which Bach later used as the cantus firmus in the opening choir of his St. Matthew Passion . In the second section the soprano sings this melody, the lower voices emphasize the word “Halt” through multiple homophonic interjections. In the third section, the soprano repeats the melody, while first the alto, as a counter-subject of a fugue , presents a theme that represents the resurrection through an animated upward movement that spans more than an octave . The central fourth section repeats the sinfonia with an embedded choir; sections 5 to 7 modify sections 2 to 4.

The tenor aria Mein Jesus ist erupt is accompanied by an oboe d'amore obbligato . The theme is introduced by the strings and picked up by the singing voice, a run up appears on the word "resurrected". The first stanza of the Easter song appeared is the glorious day is in the middle of the composition framed by two alto recitatives .

Movement 6 contrasts a singer with the choir even more strongly. The strings begin with a sinfonia, “whose violent movement depicts the onslaught of the enemy”. In strong contrast to her forte in 4/4 time, in piano, 3/4 time and accompanied by gently dotted rhythms of the woodwinds, the bass appears as the Vox Christi and sings three times the greeting that Jesus sends to the disciples in verse 19 of the Gospel : "Peace be with you". The three upper voices of the choir answer to the music of the introduction and recognize Jesus as a helper in the fight: "Help us fight and dampen the anger of our enemies". The greeting of peace and the answer are repeated two more times, in the second chorus stanza it says “refresh in us tired mind and body at the same time” and in the third “to penetrate through death”. In the final, last greeting of peace, the strings play with the woodwinds as a symbol of peace. Bach reworked this movement for the glory of his Missa in A major , BWV 234. The cantata ends with a four-part movement of the chorale Du Friedefürst, Herr Jesu Christ .

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Individual evidence

  1. John Eliot Gardiner : Cantatas for the First Sunday after Easter (Quasimodogeniti) / Johann Sebastian Bach Church, Arnstadt ( English , PDF; 115 kB) bach-cantatas.com. 2007. Retrieved April 11, 2012.
  2. Klaus Hofmann: Halt in Gedächtnis Jesum Christ (Remember that Jesus Christ), BWV 67 ( English , PDF; 4.8 MB) bach-cantatas.com. 2001. Retrieved April 11, 2012.
  3. The glorious Tag / Text and Translation of Chorale ( English ) bach-cantatas.com was published. 2006. Retrieved April 15, 2012.
  4. Du Friedefürst, Herr Jesu Christ / Text and Translation of Chorale ( English ) bach-cantatas.com. 2003. Retrieved April 15, 2012.
  5. ^ A b Brian Robins: Cantata No. 67, "Halt in Gedächtnis Jesum Christ," BWV 67 (BC A62) ( English ) Allmusic . 2012. Retrieved April 11, 2012.
  6. a b c Julian Mincham: Chapter 50 BWV 67 Halt in the memory of Jesus Christ ( English ) jsbachcantatas.com. 2010. Retrieved April 11, 2012.
  7. Chorale Melodies used in Bach's Vocal Works / Published the glorious day ( English bach-cantatas.com). 2006. Retrieved April 15, 2012.
  8. after Alfred Dürr
  9. Chorale Melodies used in Bach's Vocal Works / Du Friedefürst, Herr Jesu Christ ( English ) bach-cantatas.com. 2006. Retrieved April 15, 2012.
  10. 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