Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust, BWV 170

Hilarious Ruh, popular soul like ( 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 premiered on July 28, 1726 together with the cantata I want my spirit within you give of Johann Sebastian Bach's cousin Johann Ludwig Bach, so that a cantata before and one after the sermon was heard in the main worship service. What cantata was the preferred location before the sermon, is not known. But probably this place was Johann Ludwig Bach's cantata, as only his cantata took clear reference to the Sunday Gospel.

Begins with " Hilarious Ruh, popular soul Lust" clay praises of the "true peace of mind " and the " peace and tranquility of the heart". But the aria text is only a gentle foreplay. In the first recitative, with which he makes a reference to Sunday 's Gospel ( Mt 5.20 to 22 LUT), he rants about the crowd of sinners. In the second aria text of the aberration of the human heart is deplored. In the last line of this aria as it says at the beginning: "What but whine me the wrong heart." This clay will return to the beginning. The next recitative then continues the proceedings until it then but to "God's rule" to love even the enemy as a friend, returns. The final aria completes the circle of ideas, by returning to the " vernügten Ruh " back to the beginning.

Construction

The cantata is divided into five parts:

  • Aria: Hilarious Ruh, popular Seelenlust
  • Recitative: The World, the sin house
  • Aria: How whine me but the froward heart
  • Recitative: Who should wish, therefore, to live well here
  • Aria: I am disgusted to live more

For the first aria Bach used according to the message header, resting in itself, perfect 12/8-Takt and the mild luster of the key of D major. In this aria, the strings and the oboe d' amore as well as the dominant alto voice to fully develop. With the first Recitative this ideal world is left for the rest of the cantata. The world view is even called into question. This signals Bach in that it omits the otherwise mandatory bass foundation, Violin and Viola forms at higher pitches, the basic voice and obbligato organ and the singing voice go into a harmonic and melodic adventure. The third aria that concludes the cantata could be an ode to the joys of earthly existence if it were not at the beginning of the aria of excessive step d- gis, a tritone, the " Diabolus in musica ". It signals the abhorrence of Pharisaic existence and the necessity of repentance.

Georg Christian Lehms Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis Gospel (liturgy) Bowed string instrument Range (music) Werner Neumann Christoph Wolff Ton Koopman 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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