I go looking with longing
| Bach cantata | |
|---|---|
| I go looking with longing | |
| BWV: | 49 |
| Occasion: | 20th Sunday after Trinity |
| Year of origin: | 1726 |
| Place of origin: | Leipzig |
| Genus: | Dialogue |
| Solo : | SB |
| Choir: | - |
| Instruments : | Oa Vp 2Vl Va Og Bc |
| AD : | approx. 29 min |
| text | |
| Christoph Birkmann; Philipp Nicolai | |
| List of Bach cantatas | |
I go and search with desire ( BWV 49) is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach .
Emergence
The work was composed for November 3, 1726 in Leipzig . The introductory symphony with her virtuoso solo organ was taken from an instrumental concerto by Bach to the final, which probably from his Köthener comes time and the prototype of the Harpsichord Concerto BWV 1053 is.
Subject
The work with the text by the theologian and Bach student Christoph Birkmann (1703–1771) is the setting of a dialogue between Jesus (bass) and the soul symbolizing believing Christians (soprano), as is also the leitmotif of the cantata BWV 140 . It is primarily alluded to images of Solomon's Song of Songs, with the baroque love poem being reinterpreted as a wedding between Jesus and the believing soul.
occupation
- Vocal soloists: soprano , bass ,
- Orchestra: organ , violoncello piccolo , oboe d'amore , violin I / II, viola , basso continuo
structure
- Sinfonia (Oa, Vl I / II, Va, Org, Bc)
- Aria B (Org, Bc): I go and seek with desire
- Recitativo S, B (Vl I / II, Va, Bc): My meal is ready '
- Aria S (Oa, Vp, Bc): I am wonderful, I am beautiful
- Recitativo / Dialog S, B (Bc): I was so attracted to my beliefs
- Aria B, S e Choral (Oa, Vl I / II, Va, Org, Bc): I've always loved you
particularities
Unusual is the cheerful, concertante character inherent in the piece, to which the organ lends a special festivity and which is more reminiscent of a civil wedding party than of a church cantata. In the autograph the work is referred to as "Dialogus", and so the usual choir is missing in addition to solo alto and tenor. It is also one of the few Bach cantatas in which the violoncello piccolo is used. The elaborately designed final chorale is also striking : while the organ is playing a ritornello , a dialogue develops between the arioso bass part and the chorale melody performed by the soprano as a cantus firmus , the 7th verse of the song Wie schön der Morgenstern by Philipp Nicolai ( 1599).
literature
- Alfred Dürr : Johann Sebastian Bach: The Cantatas. Bärenreiter, Kassel 1999, ISBN 3-7618-1476-3 .
- Werner Neumann : Handbook of the cantatas JSBachs. 1947, 5th edition 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-Verl.).
- Christoph Wolff, Ton Koopman : The world of Bach cantatas . Verlag JB Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2006, ISBN 978-3-476-02127-4 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Christine Blanken: A Cantata-Text Cycle of 1728 from Nuremberg: a Preliminary Report on a Discovery relating to JS Bach's so-called 'Third Annual Cantata Cycle'. In: Understanding Bach , 10/2015, pp. 9–30, especially p. 22; accessed on the Bach Network on November 19, 2015.
Web links
- Materials for the cantata BWV 49 at Bach Digital of the Leipzig Bach Archive
- Cantata BWV 49 : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
- Structure and complete text of the cantata BWV 49
