Hilarious rest, beloved lust for soul
| Bach cantata | |
|---|---|
| Hilarious rest, beloved lust for soul | |
| BWV: | 170 |
| Occasion: | 6th Sunday after Trinity |
| Year of origin: | 1726 |
| Place of origin: | Leipzig |
| Genus: | Church cantata |
| Solo : | A. |
| Choir: | - |
| Instruments : | Oa Org 2Vl Va Bc |
| AD : | 20 min |
| text | |
| Georg Christian Lehms | |
| List of Bach cantatas | |
Hilarious rest, beloved Seelenlust ( BWV 170) is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach , a solo cantata for alto.
Occasion and content
Bach composed the cantata for the 6th Sunday after Trinitas in Leipzig . It was premiered on July 28, 1726 together with the cantata I want to give my spirit in you by Johann Sebastian Bach's cousin Johann Ludwig Bach , so that one cantata could be heard before and one after the sermon in the main service. It is not known which cantata was given the preferred position before the sermon. This passage probably received Johann Ludwig Bach's cantata, since only his cantata made clear reference to the Sunday Gospel .
Lehms begins a hymn of praise to “true peace of mind” and to the “silence and tranquility of the heart” with “Enjoyed peace and quiet”. But the text of the aria is only a gentle prelude. In the first recitativo, with which he makes a reference to the Sunday Gospel ( Mt 5,20-22 LUT ), he then railed against the crowd of sinners. In the second text of the aria, the wrong path of the human heart is lamented. In the last line of this aria it says, as at the beginning: “How I complain for my wrong heart”. With this, Lehms returns to the beginning. The next recitativo then continues the complaint, until it then returns to “God's rule” to also love the enemy like a friend. The final aria completes the circle of thoughts by returning to the beginning with the "reasoned calm".
construction
The cantata is divided into five parts:
- Aria : Happy calm, beloved lust for soul
- Recitativo : The world, the house of sin
- Aria: How I complain for the wrong heart
- Recitativo: So who would want to live here?
- Aria: I'm more disgusted with living
For the first aria, according to the title line, Bach uses the calm, perfect 12/8 time and the mild sheen of the key of D major. In this aria the string instruments and the oboe d'amore as well as the dominant alto part can fully develop. With the first recitativo, this ideal world is left for the rest of the cantata. The worldview is even called into question. Bach signals this by leaving out the otherwise mandatory bass foundation , violin and viola in high pitches form the basic voice and the obligatory organ and the singing voice embark on a harmonic and melodic adventure. The third aria that closes the cantata could be a hymn of praise to the joys of earthly existence, if not the excessive step D-G sharp, a tritone , the "Diabolus in musica" at the beginning of the aria . It signals the disgust for Pharisaic existence and the need to repent.
Recordings (selection)
DVD
- Hilarious rest, beloved lust for soul. Cantata BWV 170. Rudolf Lutz , choir and orchestra of the JS Bach Foundation , Andreas Scholl (alto). Including an introductory workshop and reflection by Jürg Kesselring . Gallus Media, 2014.
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 . Evangelische Verlags-Anstalt, Leipzig 2006, ISBN 3-374-02390-8 ; Carus-Verlag, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-89948-073-2 (Edition Bach Archive Leipzig).
- Christoph Wolff , Ton Koopman : The world of Bach cantatas . Verlag JB Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2006, ISBN 978-3-476-02127-4 .
Web links
- Hilarious rest, beloved lust for soul : sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
- BWV 170 Hilarious peace and quiet, popular Seelenlust Text, structure and cast on the personal homepage of Walter F. Bischof at the University of Alberta
- Hilarious peace and quiet, beloved lust for soul in Bach Cantatas (English)
