Valet, i want to give you

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Valet I want to give you is a spiritual song with a text by Valerius Herberger and a melody by Melchior Teschner . It is printed under the number 523 in the Evangelical Hymnal.

Emergence

I want to give you valet , first printed in 1614
First printing of the melody, 1614
Melody in the German Evangelical Hymn book 1915
Melody in the Evangelical Hymnal

Herberger composed the five stanzas against the background of a plague epidemic during his tenure as pastor in Fraustadt . They are entitled:

VALET VALERII HERBERGERI, which he gave to the world / Anno 1613. in autumn / since he all hours / borne death for eyes / but still graciously / and yes as miraculously received as the three men in the Babylonian Fewerofen .

This is followed by the Latin motto:

TE JESU sitio. Terram detestor iniquam,
O coelum salve: Mouth malignant VALE.
“I thirst for you, Jesus. I abhor the hostile world.
O heavens, greetings. Bad world, goodbye! "

At the end of the song it says:

Perfidious MOUTH VALE: SALVE SALVATOR JESUS.
“Faithless world, goodbye; greetings, Savior Jesus! "

content

The song is about saying goodbye to earthly life, about preparation for death and about eternal life. From the second stanza onwards it is a request to Jesus Christ for consolation in the agony and inclusion in the book of life through his passion .

The beginning with the word "valet" (an outdated farewell greeting from Latin valete "farewell") is explained, among other things, by the fact that Herberger incorporated an acrostic into his first name. The first four letters of the first word together with the first letter of the following stanzas make up the name ValeRIVS .

text

Vale t I want to give you,
you bad, wrong world; I do not like
your sinfully bad life
at all.
It is good to live in heaven
, my desire is up
there, and God will be wonderfully rewarded
for him who serves him here.

R at me according to thy heart,
O Jesus, son of God.
Should I endure pain,
help me, Lord Christ, away;
shorten all suffering for me,
strengthen my weak courage,
let me part happily, place
me in your inheritance.

In the bottom of my heart,
your name and cross alone
sparkles all the time and hour, then
I can be happy.
Appear to me in the picture
to comfort me in my distress,
how you, Lord Christ, so mildly,
you have bled to death.

V erbirg my soul by grace
in your open since,
she returned from all harm
to your glory.
He must have been here
who comes to the heavenly castle;
who is forever recovered,
who stays in your lap.

S chreib my Nam in the best possible
in the Book of Life
and bind my soul even resistant
to the beautiful Bündelein
der', the green in heaven
and against you live freely,
so I will praise forever,
that your heart is loyal.

melody

Herberger's text is linked to Melchior Teschner's melody as early as 1614. The widespread stanza scheme also allowed the use of other melodies such as O head full of blood and wounds , you command your way or how should I receive you . Teschner's melody is also used in the Evangelical Hymnal for Let me be and stay yours (No. 157) and Who you have in the nights of death (No. 257), in the Catholic praise of God for you, O Lord, your life (No. 185), The Lord I want to praise (No. 395) and let us praise the angel (No. 540).

Characteristic of the melody is the initial ascent from the tonic to the oberterz and the line-by-line descent in the second half of the stanza. With a pitch range of a decime , it surpasses most church songs and has been transposed down several times in the newer hymnal editions ( German Evangelical Hymnal in C major, Evangelical Church Hymnal , Evangelical Hymnal and Gotteslob 1975 in B flat major, Gotteslob 2013 in A major).

The melody is used in two slightly different variants. Teschner's original version have u. a. the German Evangelical Church Hymnbook (1854), the Evangelical Church Hymnal (1950) and the Evangelical Hymnal (1993). A version with two different tones have u. a. the German Evangelical Hymnbook (1915) and the Praise of God (2013).

Edits

Johann Sebastian Bach composed the Fantasia super “Valet I will give you” (BWV 735) and the chorale prelude “Valet I will give you” (BWV 736) for the organ - probably during his time in Arnstadt . As vocal works he wrote the four-part choral movement “Valet I will give you” (BVW 415) and used chorale adaptations of the song in his cantata Christ, who is my life (BWV 95) and, with the text of the third stanza, as chorale no the St. John Passion (BWV 245).

Naji Hakim , Anton Heiller , Georg Austria , Max Reger , Georg Philipp Telemann (cantata TWV 1: 1458), Johannes Weyrauch and many others composed further arrangements .

literature

Web links

Commons : I want to give you valet  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ digitized version
  2. ↑ Duden: Valet
  3. ↑ cf. EG 523
  4. ↑ No. 139
  5. ↑ The third from last note of the 2nd / 4th Line and the first tone of the last line are a minor third higher.
    Melody in praise of God
  6. ^ Hermann Keller : The organ works of Bach. A contribution to their history, form, interpretation and rendering . Peters, Leipzig 1948, pp. 175-176.
  7. ↑ najihakim.com