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Bach composed the cantata in Leipzig for the 27th Sunday after Trinity. [4] This Sunday occurs only when Easter is early. [5] The prescribed readings for the Sunday were from the First Epistle to the Thessalonians, be prepared for the day of the Lord (1 Thessalonians 5:1–11), and from the Gospel of Matthew, the parable of the Ten Virgins (Matthew 25:1–13).
Christ lag in Todes Banden BWV 4 Chorale cantata by J. S. Bach Soprano part from opening chorus with text in Bach's own hand, St. Thomas Church, Leipzig, 1724/1725 Key E minor Occasion First Day of Easter Chorale " Christ lag in Todes Banden " by Martin Luther Performed 24 April 1707 (1707-04-24) Published 1851 (1851) Duration About 20 minutes Movements 8 Vocal SATB Instrumental Cornetto 3 ...
Another cantata in which Bach used that term is Ich bin vergnügt mit meinem Glücke, BWV 84. Typically, he began a heading with the abbreviation J.J. (Jesu juva, "Jesus, help"), followed by the name of the celebration, the beginning of the words and the instrumentation, for example in Gloria in excelsis Deo, BWV 191.
—from BWV 147, chorale movement no. 6 Jesus remains my joy, my heart's consolation and sap, Jesus fends off all suffering, He is my life's strength, my eyes' lust [voluntarism meaning: reason of being] and sun, my soul's treasure and pleasure; Therefore I will not leave Jesus out of heart and sight. —from BWV 147, chorale movement no. 10
The final movement is a chorale of which Franck submitted only two lines. The continuation was found in a contemporary hymnal. [8] When Bach expanded the cantata, he probably used the same opening movement, the first aria as movement 3, the second as movement 7, the third as movement 5, and the fourth with a new text as movement 9. The closing ...
The cantata is unique in Bach's church cantatas in its structure of arias combined with chorale instead of recitatives. Performed one week after Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 140, it shows Bach's emphasis on the chorale even beyond his second cycle of chorale cantatas, begun in 1724. [10]
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Like the Meiningen libretto used for JLB 13 the cantata not only starts with a dictum but also has a second dictum, directly quoted from Luther's translation of the New Testament, near the middle of the cantata (movement 4, "Meine Seele erhebt den Herrn", in Johann Ludwig's cantata, and movement 5, "Er denket der Barmherzigkeit" in BWV 10).