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The cantata opens with a quote from the Gospel of Mark, The possessed boy, Mark's rendition of the gospel . The following movements almost form a dialogue between fear and hope, or belief and doubt, such as Bach would compose three weeks later in O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort , BWV 60 , and again for Easter of 1724 in Erfreut euch, ihr Herzen , BWV ...
Most cantatas made reference to the content of the readings and to Lutheran hymns appropriate for the occasion. The melodies of such hymns often appeared in cantatas, for example as in the four-part settings concluding Bach's works, or as a cantus firmus in larger choral movements. Other occasions for church cantatas include weddings and ...
According to musicologist Martin Elste, the most frequently recorded cantatas of Bach have been the virtuoso solo cantatas Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen, BWV 50 for soprano and obbligato trumpet, Ich habe genug, BWV 82 for bass (with alternative versions for soprano, alto or mezzo-soprano) and the so-called "Kreuzstab cantata" for solo bass or bass-baritone Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen ...
Bach composed the cantata in his second year in Leipzig for the feast of the Ascension. [2] The prescribed readings for the feast day were from the Acts of the Apostles, Jesus telling his disciples to preach and baptize, and his Ascension (Acts 1:1–11), and from the Gospel of Mark (Mark 16:14–20).
Bach's Nekrolog mentions five cantata cycles: "Fünf Jahrgänge von Kirchenstücken, auf alle Sonn- und Festtage" (Five year-cycles of pieces for the church, for all Sundays and feast days), [1] which would amount to at least 275 cantatas, [2] or over 320 if all cycles would have been ideal cycles. [3]
: One sings with joy about victory), BWV 149, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed the work in Leipzig for Michaelmas and first performed it in 1728 or 1729. [1] It is the last of his three extant cantatas for the feast. Picander wrote the cantata's libretto, and published it in a 1728/29 cycle of cantata texts.
O Jesu Christ, meins Lebens Licht (O Jesus Christ, light of my life), BWV 118, [a] is a sacred motet composed by Johann Sebastian Bach.It is known to have been performed at a funeral, and was possibly a generic work intended for funerals. [1]
Bach composed the cantata in Leipzig for the Eleventh Sunday after Trinity as part of his chorale cantata cycle. [2] [3] The prescribed readings for the Sunday were from the First Epistle to the Corinthians, on the gospel of Christ and his (Paul's) duty as an apostle (1 Corinthians 15:1–10), and from the Gospel of Luke, the parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector (Luke 18:9–14).