Come on, you sweet hour of death
| Bach cantata | |
|---|---|
| Come on, you sweet hour of death | |
| BWV: | 161 |
| Occasion: | 16th Sunday after Trinity / Purification of the Virgin |
| Year of origin: | 1715 |
| Place of origin: | Weimar |
| Genus: | cantata |
| Solo : | AT |
| Choir: | SATB |
| Instruments : | 2Fl 2Vl Va Bc |
| text | |
| Salomon Franck , Christoph Knoll | |
| List of Bach cantatas | |
Come on, you sweet hour of death , BWV 161, is a cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach .
It was probably composed in Weimar for October 6th, 1715 (16th Sunday after Trinity ) as well as for Mary's Candlemas . Another performance probably took place on September 16, 1725 in Leipzig .
The text was written by Salomon Franck (sentences 1–5) and Christoph Knoll (6th movement = 4th stanza of the song Herzlich tut mich haben ).
The chorale theme is based on a melody that was originally composed by Hans Leo Haßler as a secular love song Mein G'müt ist bewret mich , printed in 1601. The song O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden uses the same melody. It is also one of several tunes, to which the text Commit your ways you by Paul Gerhardt is sung (see. Matthew Passion , chorale no. 53).
The final bars of the alto recitative The end has already been made ( "so strikes" ) take the tenor aria Oh, strike soon, blissful hour from BWV 95, Christ, that's my life , which Bach only composed in Leipzig in 1723 .
structure
Instrumentation : two recorders , two violins , viola , organ , basso continuo as well as two soloists ( alto , tenor ) and four-part choir .
The cantata consists of 6 movements:
- “Come, you sweet hour of death”, aria for alto
- "World, your lust is a burden", recitative for tenor
- “My desire is to embrace the Savior”, aria for tenor
- “The end has already been made”, recitative for alto
- “If it is my God's will”, chorus
- “The body is in the earth”, chorale
Web links
- Come on, you sweet hour of death, BWV 161 : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
- Come, you sweet hour of death, BWV 161 with Bach Cantatas (English)
- Come on, you sweet hour of death on the Bach website
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 Cycle' , in: Understanding Bach 10, pp. 9-30, bachnetwork.co.uk (PDF)
- ^ Alfred Dürr: The cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach. Bärenreiter, Kassel 1971.
- ↑ Come on, you sweet hour of death, BWV 161 at Bach Cantatas (English)
