I will not leave my Jesus, BWV 124

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Bach cantata
I do not leave my Jesus
BWV: 124
Occasion: 1st Sunday after Epiphany
Year of origin: 1725
Place of origin: Leipzig
Genus: Choral cantata
Solo : SATB
Choir: SATB
Instruments : Co Oa 2Vl Va Bc
text
Christian Keimann , unknown poet
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I will not leave my Jesus ( BWV 124) is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach . He composed the chorale cantata, which is based on the song of the same name by Christian Keimann , in Leipzig for the 1st Sunday after Epiphany and performed it for the first time on January 7, 1725.

Story and words

In his second year in Leipzig, Bach wrote the cantata for the first Sunday after Epiphany (apparition of the Lord). The prescribed readings for Sunday were Rom 12.1–6  LUT , the duties of the Christian, and Lk 2.41–52  LUT , searching and finding the twelve year old Jesus in the temple. Last year, on the same occasion, in My dearest Jesus is lost , Bach considered the situation of the person who lost Jesus. This cantata text is based on the chorale in six stanzas by Christian Keymann (1658). As in the work of the previous year, the chorale text begins with a parallel to the Gospel: the believer does not want to lose Jesus, just as the parents of the twelve-year-old did not want to lose him. In the further course of the chorale follows the idea of ​​being connected to Jesus after death. The unknown lyricist retained the wording of the first and last stanzas and composed the remaining stanzas into as many alternating recitatives and arias . Bach first performed the cantata on January 7, 1725, one day after Dearest Immanuel, Duke of the Pious at Epiphany.

Occupation and structure

The cantata is made up of four soloists, soprano , alto , tenor and bass , four-part choir, horn to reinforce the soprano in the chorale, oboe d'amore , two violins , viola and basso continuo .

  1. Coro: I will not leave my Jesus
  2. Recitativo (tenor): As long as there is a drop of blood
  3. Aria (tenor): And if the hard death blow
  4. Recitativo (bass): Oh yes! what a grave trouble
  5. Aria (soprano, alto): Quickly withdraw, my heart, from the world
  6. Chorale: I will not leave Jesus from me

music

In the opening chorus soprano and horn wear line at the cantusfirmus ago, a melody of Andreas Hammerschmidt , who worked with Keymann The lower voices are predominantly homophonic performed while the orchestra own thematic material used in foreplay, interludes and accompaniment. The movement has the character of a minuet , with the oboe d'amore playing a leading role in concert. The phrase “to stick to him like a velvet” is illustrated by a “sticky” tone held for three bars in the lower voices. A short secco recitative leads to a tenor aria accompanied by the oboe, while the strings express "fear and terror" through a "drumming" motif of repeated fast notes. Alfred Dürr compares this motif with a similar figure in the alto recitative “Why do you want to be scared”, movement 49 in Bach's Christmas Oratorio, Part VI . In another secco recitative, the words "after the run" is illustrated by an ascending run over an octave . A duet of soprano and alto, accompanied only by continuo, resembles a dance divided into uniform sections of four bars. The cantata is concluded by the last stanza of the chorale in four-part movement.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ I will not leave my Jesus / Text and Translation of Chorale ( English ) bach-cantatas.com. 2005. Retrieved January 3, 2012.
  2. ↑ Chorale Melodies used in Bach's Vocal Works / I don't leave my Jesus ( English ) bach-cantatas.com. 2006. Retrieved January 3, 2012.
  3. ↑ John Eliot Gardiner : Cantatas for the First Sunday after Epiphany / Hauptkirche St. Jacobi, Hamburg ( English , PDF; 156 kB) bach-cantatas.com. 2010. Retrieved January 3, 2012.
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Cantatas not preserved

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Passions

St. Matthew Passion (BWV 244) • St. John Passion (BWV 245) • St. Luke Passion (BWV 246) (Bach's authorship questioned) • St. Mark Passion (BWV 247)

Oratorios

Ascension Oratorio (BWV 11) • Christmas Oratorio (BWV 248) • Easter Oratorio (BWV 249)