Du sollt Gott, deinen Herren, lieben, BWV 77

You shall the Lord thy God, love ( BWV 77 ) is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed it in Leipzig in 1723 for the 13th Sunday after Trinity and first performed it on for the first time on August 22, 1723.

History and words

Bach composed the cantata in 1723 in his first year in Leipzig for the 13th Sunday after Trinity.

The prescribed readings for the Sunday were from 3.15 to 22 Gal LUT Paul on "Law and Promise," and Luke 10.23-37 LUT, the parable of the Good Samaritan. According to Christoph Wolff comes the cantata text by Johann Oswald Knauer and appeared in 1720 in Gotha "God - sanctified singing and playing ". The text closely follows the gospel, especially the history of the story of the Good Samaritan. The question of the scribes, what he must do to gain the kingdom of heaven, he shall answer for yourself: the commandment to love God and neighbor. This double commandment of love is the text of the first sentence. Accordingly, the following text is divided into two parts, a recitative and aria treat the love of God, a symmetrical pair of love of neighbor. The text of the final chorale is not known. Karl Friedrich Zelter suggested the eighth verse of David Denickes Choral If one thing all verstünd ( 1657). Werner Neumann proposed the eighth verse of Denickes O Son of God, Lord Jesus Christ ( 1657) before, "Lord, living by faith in me."

Scoring and structure

The cantata is staffed with four soloists, soprano, alto, tenor and bass, four-part choir, tromba da tirarsi ( baroque trumpet ), two oboes, two violins, viola and basso continuo.

Music

The opening chorus contains Bach's interpretation of the decisive bid to hang on to the according to the parallel passage in Matthew 22:34-40 LUT hang all the law and the prophets. Bach had the dualism of love for God and brotherly love in his already extensive cantata in 14 sets The heavens declare the glory of God at the beginning of his first cantata cycle are addressed. To demonstrate the universality of the law, he leads Luther's chorale These are the holy Ten Commandments one which addresses the laws of the Old Testament, and structured by him the sentence. The chorale melody is played in the canon, the strictest musical form. The canon is played by the trumpet, so in the highest, and the continuo in the lowest position. In addition, the trumpet in the lower fourth canon plays twice as fast as the bass, so they can repeat individual rows and finally the whole melody and comes in a symbolic ten inserts. The voices that represent the law of the New Testament, move in imitation on a theme that is derived from the chorale melody and is first introduced by the instruments.

A brief secco recitative leads to an aria, which is accompanied by two obbligato oboe in frequent parallel thirds. The prayer of the second recitative character is underlined by strings. In the final aria in the form of a Sarabande Bach represents the mentioned in the text imperfection by letting play difficult intervals and delicate tones an obbligato trumpet, which can be only incompletely rendered on the baroque trumpet, while in the central part, as John Eliot Gardiner, in a long trumpet solo of great beauty offers a view into the divine world.

The final chorale is a four-part set to the melody of Luther 's Oh God, from heaven look into it ( 1524).

Recordings

The Bach Cantata Vol 47, Helmuth Rilling, Gächinger Kantorei, Bach-Collegium Stuttgart, Helen Donath, Helen Watts, Adalbert Kraus, Wolfgang Schöne, Haenssler 1983
J. S. Bach: The cantatas - Sacred Cantatas Vol 4 Gustav Leonhardt, Hannover Boys Choir, Collegium Vocale Gent, Leonhardt Consort, soloist of the Hannover Boys Choir, Paul Esswood, Adalbert Kraus, Max van Egmond, Teldec 1978
J. S. Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol 8, Ton Koopman, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir, Dorothea Rosch man, Elisabeth von Magnus, Jörg Dürmüller, Klaus Mertens, Antoine Marchand 1998
J. S. Bach: Cantatas Vol 13 - Cantatas from Leipzig in 1723, Masaaki Suzuki, Bach Collegium Japan, Yoshie Hida, Kirsten Sollek - Avella, Makoto Sakurada, Peter Kooij, BEFORE 1999
Bach Cantatas Vol 6: Köthen / Frankfurt / For the 12th Sunday after Trinity / For the 13th Sunday after Trinity, John Eliot Gardiner, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, Gillian Keith, Nathalie Stutzmann, Christoph Genz, Jonathan Brown, Soli Deo Gloria 1990

Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis Epistle to the Galatians Bass (voice type) Ach Gott, vom Himmel sieh darein Knabenchor Hannover Leonhardt-Consort Peter Kooy Ach Gott, wie manches Herzeleid, BWV 3 Allein zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 33 Brich dem Hungrigen dein Brot, BWV 39 Am Abend aber desselbigen Sabbats, BWV 42 Also hat Gott die Welt geliebt, BWV 68 Alles nur nach Gottes Willen, BWV 72 Alles, was von Gott geboren, BWV 80a Bisher habt ihr nichts gebeten in meinem Namen, BWV 87 Ach, lieben Christen, seid getrost, BWV 114 Christum wir sollen loben schon, BWV 121 Auf Christi Himmelfahrt allein, BWV 128 Aus der Tiefen rufe ich, Herr, zu dir, BWV 131 Bereitet die Wege, bereitet die Bahn! BWV 132 Erforsche mich, Gott, und erfahre mein Herz, BWV 136 Bringet dem Herrn Ehre seines Namens, BWV 148 Ach! ich sehe, itzt, da ich zur Hochzeit gehe, BWV 162 Barmherziges Herze der ewigen Liebe, BWV 185 Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut, BWV 199 Entfliehet, verschwindet, entweichet, ihr Sorgen, BWV 249a St Mark Passion (Bach)

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