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Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich, BWV 150

January 01, 1970

Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich (For Thee, O Lord, I long),[2] BWV 150,[b] is an early church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach composed for an unknown occasion. It is unique among Bach's cantatas in its sparse orchestration and in the independence and prominence of the chorus, which is featured in four out of seven movements. The text alternates verses from Psalm 25 and poetry by an unknown librettist. Bach scored the work for four vocal parts and a small Baroque instrumental ensemble of two violins, bassoon and basso continuo.

Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich
BWV 150
Church cantata by J. S. Bach
Portrait of the young Bach (disputed)[1]
Bible textPsalms 25:1–2, 5, 15
PerformedPossibly 1707[a]
Movements7
VocalSATB choir and solo
Instrumental
  • 2 violins
  • bassoon
  • continuo

Many scholars think that it may be the earliest extant cantata by Bach, possibly composed in Arnstadt in 1707.

History and text edit

Bach's original score is lost. The music survives in a copy made by C F Penzel, one of Bach's last pupils, after the composer's death.[3] The date of composition is not known, and sources differ as to when and where Bach composed the work. However, the balance of opinion has moved towards a date at the beginning of Bach's career. It is not currently in dispute that it is one of Bach's earliest surviving cantatas. Suggestions for the place of composition have been:

  • Weimar, where Bach worked from 1708. The conductor and academic Jonathan Green dates the work c. 1708–1710; the Bach scholar William G. Whittaker dates it c. 1712.[4][5]
  • Mühlhausen, where Bach worked in 1707/1708. The Zwang catalogue (which attempts to list the cantatas chronologically) dated it as the sixth of the surviving cantatas by Bach, and placed Aus der Tiefen rufe ich, Herr, zu dir, BWV 131, as the earliest. Aus der Tiefen rufe ich, Herr, zu dir is known to have been composed in Mühlhausen in 1707/1708.[6]
  • Arnstadt, where Bach worked until his move to Mühlhausen in the summer of 1707. Late 20th-century scholarship suggests Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich could have been composed at Arnstadt.[3]
 
The Wender organ, which Bach inspected, in the Neue Kirche, Arnstadt, for which the cantata was probably composed

The Bach scholar Andreas Glöckner argued in 1988 that the cantata may have been composed in Arnstadt.[7] The scholar Hans-Joachim Schulze identified in 2010 a remarkable acrostic in the concluding four movements (which he described in the 2010 Bach-Jahrbuch, the journal of the Neue Bachgesellschaft). Adjusting for transposition errors by the copyist, the initial letters should spell DOKTOR CONRAD MECKBACH and plausibly therefore the work was composed to mark this Mühlhausen councillor's 70th birthday in April 1707. On this basis the cantata may date from Bach's time in Arnstadt. Possibly the cantata was heard a few weeks later after the end of Lent, and thus it may have formed a test-piece for the Mühlhausen appointment, composed in Arnstadt with Bach's supporter Meckbach in mind.[8][9]

The cantata is, as John Eliot Gardiner notes, "generally accepted to be Bach's very first church cantata."[10] Gardiner conducted in 2000 the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage and performed the cantata in the church for which it was then probably composed, at Bach's time called Neue Kirche (new church), now the Johann-Sebastian-Bach-Kirche.[10]

The libretto alternates between biblical verses and free contemporary poetry, which is common in Bach's later cantatas, but rare among his early cantatas. The text of movements 2, 4, and 6 are selected psalm verses, Psalms 25:1–2, 5, 15. The author of the poetry is unknown. On the basis of the text, it has been suggested that the work was written for a penitential service.[11]

The cantata was first published in 1884 in the Bach-Gesellschaft-Ausgabe, the first edition of Bach's complete works. The composer Johannes Brahms, who served on the editorial board of the Bach-Gesellschaft-Ausgabe, took an interest in the cantata as it was being published. He used an adapted version of the bass line of the closing chaconne for a work he completed in 1885, his Symphony No. 4.[12]

Structure and scoring edit

Bach structured the cantata in seven movements, an opening instrumental sinfonia and four choral movements interspersed by only two arias. He scored it for four soloists (soprano, alto, tenor and bass), a four-part choir, and a small Baroque instrumental ensemble of two violins (Vl), bassoon (obbligato) (Fg) and basso continuo.[13] The duration of the cantata is about 17 minutes.[7]

In the following table of the movements, the scoring follows the Neue Bach-Ausgabe.[13] The keys and time signatures are taken from Alfred Dürr, using the symbol for common time (4/4). The continuo, playing throughout, is not shown.[7]

Movements of Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich, BWV 150
No. Title Text Type Vocal Bassoon Strings Key Time
1 Sinfonia Fg 2Vl B minor  
2 Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich Psalm 25:1–2 Chorus SATB Fg 2Vl B minor  
3 Doch bin und bleibe ich vergnügt anon. Aria S 2Vl B minor  
4 Leite mich in deiner Wahrheit Psalm 25:5 Chorus SATB Fg 2Vl B minor
5 Zedern müssen von den Winden anon. Aria A T B Fg D major 3/4
6 Meine Augen sehen stets zu dem Herrn Psalm 25:15 Chorus SATB Fg 2Vl D major 6/8
7 Meine Tage in dem Leide anon. Chorus SATB Fg 2Vl B minor 3/2

Music edit

The work begins with a sinfonia and then alternates choral movements and arias. There are no recitatives, no da capo repeats, and there is no chorale tune, unusually for Bach's cantatas. Bach makes extensive use of choral fugues and imitative polyphony, often shifting the tempo and character of the music within movements very quickly to accommodate a new musical idea with each successive phrase of text.

The sinfonia and the opening choral movement are both based on the motive of an octave leap followed by five descending half steps. This chromatic figure, sometimes dubbed the "lamento bass" or passus duriusculus, has been utilized by composers as early as Monteverdi as a musical representation of anguish, pain, and longing.[14] The sinfonia also introduces thematic material developed later in the work, uses asymmetric phrasing, and "a seamless flow of unstoppable melody".[15]

The first chorus on the beginning of Psalm 25, "Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich. Mein Gott, ich hoffe auf dich." (Lord, I long for you. My God, I hope in you.),[2] is "waywardly constructed despite its relative brevity". It is episodic, emphasizing a descending chromatic scale motif. The musicologist Tadashi Isoyama notes "the graphically chromatic phrases of the opening sinfonia and the following chorus; these are evocative of the suffering of the world".[3]

The following soprano aria, "Doch bin und bleibe ich vergnügt" (Yet I am and remain content),[2] is also brief but includes significant word painting.[15]

The fourth movement, "Leite mich in deiner Wahrheit und lehre mich" (Lead me in your Truth and teach me),[2] is another short and episodic chorus, divided into four sections.[15]

Movement five, "Zedern müssen von den Winden oft viel Ungemach empfinden" (Cedars must, before the winds, often feel much hardship),[2] is one of only a handful of vocal trios to be found in Bach's oeuvre, as well as the only movement in the cantata in all major. Isoyama writes: "the continuo part drives the music forward with its phrase describing the trials of the stormwinds".[3]

The penultimate movement, "Meine Augen sehen stets zu dem Herrn", features a "celestial haze" of instruments as part of a complex texture.[15] It is in binary form and modulates from D major through B minor to B major.[16]

The final movement, "Meine Tage In Dem Leide", is a chaconne, a form which is typically constructed over a repeated ground bass. Bach uses a ground bass which is possibly a borrowing from Pachelbel. It is the inversion of the chromatic fourth ostinato from the opening movement.[17] Bach's orchestration includes strumming effects which could be seen as recalling the origin of the chaconne in Spanish guitar music.[18] From a theological point of view, both the inversion of the lamento bass and the series of modulations in this movement express in baroque musical affect how Christ leads from sorrow to joy.[17]

Selected recordings edit

Notes edit

  1. ^ There is a consensus that this is one of the earliest Bach cantatas, possibly the earliest extant.
  2. ^ "BWV" is Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis, a thematic catalogue of Bach's works.

References edit

  1. ^ Towe, Teri Noel. . The Face Of Bach. Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 28 April 2014.
  2. ^ a b c d e Dellal, Pamela. "BWV 150 – Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich". Emmanuel Music. Retrieved 3 September 2022.
  3. ^ a b c d Isoyama, Tadashi (1995). "Cantata No. 150 Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich (BWV 150)" (PDF). Bach-Cantatas. p. 7. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
  4. ^ Green 2000.
  5. ^ Whittaker 1959.
  6. ^ Zwang & Zwang 2005.
  7. ^ a b c Dürr, Alfred; Jones, Richard D. P. (2006). The Cantatas of J. S. Bach: With Their Librettos in German-English Parallel Text. Oxford University Press. pp. 7–8. ISBN 9780199297764.
  8. ^ Grob, Jochen (2014). "BWV 150 / BC B 24" (in German). Lexikon Geschichte Baden+Württemberg. Retrieved 23 March 2016.
  9. ^ van Hengel, Eduard. "Eduard van Hengel". eduardvanhengel.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 17 June 2021.
  10. ^ a b John Eliot Gardiner (2006). "Cantatas for the First Sunday after Easter (Quasimodogeniti) / Johann-Sebastian-Bach-Kirche, Arnstadt" (PDF). Bach-Cantatas. pp. 1–4. Retrieved 24 March 2016.
  11. ^ Oron, Aryeh (2015). "Cantata BWV 150 Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich". Bach-Cantatas. Retrieved 23 March 2016.
  12. ^ Smith, Craig (2012). "Bach Cantata Notes / BWV 150". Emmanuel Music. Retrieved 3 September 2022.
  13. ^ a b Bischof, Walter F. "BWV 150 Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich". University of Alberta. Retrieved 1 June 2013.
  14. ^ Jeffers 2000, p. 44.
  15. ^ a b c d Mincham, Julian (2010). "Chapter 63 BWV 150 Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich". jsbachcantatas.com. Retrieved 3 September 2022.
  16. ^ Kuerti, Julian. "Notes on BWV 150". juliankuerti.com. Retrieved 23 March 2013.
  17. ^ a b Bötticher, Jörg-Andreas. "Einführung in die Kantaten vom 14. März 2010". bachkantaten.ch. Retrieved 23 March 2013.
  18. ^ Silbiger, Alexander (1999). "Bach and the Chaconne". The Journal of Musicology. 17 (3): 358–385. doi:10.2307/764098. JSTOR 764098.

Sources edit

  • Green, Jonathan (2000). A Conductor's Guide to the Choral-Orchestral Works of J. S. Bach. Scarecrow Press.
  • Jeffers, Ron (2000). Translations and Annotations of Choral Repertoire, Volume 2: German Texts. Earthsongs.
  • Whittaker, William Gillies (1959). The Cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach. Vol. 1. Oxford University Press.
  • Young, W. Murray (1989). The Cantatas of J. S. Bach: An Analytical Guide. McFarland & Co.
  • Zwang, Philippe; Zwang, Gérard (2005). Guide pratique des cantates de Bach (Second revised and augmented edition.) (in French). L'Harmattan. pp. 52–53. ISBN 9782296426078.

External links edit

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Nach dir Herr verlanget mich For Thee O Lord I long 2 BWV 150 b is an early church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach composed for an unknown occasion It is unique among Bach s cantatas in its sparse orchestration and in the independence and prominence of the chorus which is featured in four out of seven movements The text alternates verses from Psalm 25 and poetry by an unknown librettist Bach scored the work for four vocal parts and a small Baroque instrumental ensemble of two violins bassoon and basso continuo Nach dir Herr verlanget michBWV 150Church cantata by J S BachPortrait of the young Bach disputed 1 Bible textPsalms 25 1 2 5 15PerformedPossibly 1707 a Movements7VocalSATB choir and soloInstrumental2 violinsbassooncontinuo Many scholars think that it may be the earliest extant cantata by Bach possibly composed in Arnstadt in 1707 Contents 1 History and text 2 Structure and scoring 3 Music 4 Selected recordings 5 Notes 6 References 7 Sources 8 External linksHistory and text editBach s original score is lost The music survives in a copy made by C F Penzel one of Bach s last pupils after the composer s death 3 The date of composition is not known and sources differ as to when and where Bach composed the work However the balance of opinion has moved towards a date at the beginning of Bach s career It is not currently in dispute that it is one of Bach s earliest surviving cantatas Suggestions for the place of composition have been Weimar where Bach worked from 1708 The conductor and academic Jonathan Green dates the work c 1708 1710 the Bach scholar William G Whittaker dates it c 1712 4 5 Muhlhausen where Bach worked in 1707 1708 The Zwang catalogue which attempts to list the cantatas chronologically dated it as the sixth of the surviving cantatas by Bach and placed Aus der Tiefen rufe ich Herr zu dir BWV 131 as the earliest Aus der Tiefen rufe ich Herr zu dir is known to have been composed in Muhlhausen in 1707 1708 6 Arnstadt where Bach worked until his move to Muhlhausen in the summer of 1707 Late 20th century scholarship suggests Nach dir Herr verlanget mich could have been composed at Arnstadt 3 nbsp The Wender organ which Bach inspected in the Neue Kirche Arnstadt for which the cantata was probably composed The Bach scholar Andreas Glockner argued in 1988 that the cantata may have been composed in Arnstadt 7 The scholar Hans Joachim Schulze identified in 2010 a remarkable acrostic in the concluding four movements which he described in the 2010 Bach Jahrbuch the journal of the Neue Bachgesellschaft Adjusting for transposition errors by the copyist the initial letters should spell DOKTOR CONRAD MECKBACH and plausibly therefore the work was composed to mark this Muhlhausen councillor s 70th birthday in April 1707 On this basis the cantata may date from Bach s time in Arnstadt Possibly the cantata was heard a few weeks later after the end of Lent and thus it may have formed a test piece for the Muhlhausen appointment composed in Arnstadt with Bach s supporter Meckbach in mind 8 9 The cantata is as John Eliot Gardiner notes generally accepted to be Bach s very first church cantata 10 Gardiner conducted in 2000 the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage and performed the cantata in the church for which it was then probably composed at Bach s time called Neue Kirche new church now the Johann Sebastian Bach Kirche 10 The libretto alternates between biblical verses and free contemporary poetry which is common in Bach s later cantatas but rare among his early cantatas The text of movements 2 4 and 6 are selected psalm verses Psalms 25 1 2 5 15 The author of the poetry is unknown On the basis of the text it has been suggested that the work was written for a penitential service 11 The cantata was first published in 1884 in the Bach Gesellschaft Ausgabe the first edition of Bach s complete works The composer Johannes Brahms who served on the editorial board of the Bach Gesellschaft Ausgabe took an interest in the cantata as it was being published He used an adapted version of the bass line of the closing chaconne for a work he completed in 1885 his Symphony No 4 12 Structure and scoring editBach structured the cantata in seven movements an opening instrumental sinfonia and four choral movements interspersed by only two arias He scored it for four soloists soprano alto tenor and bass a four part choir and a small Baroque instrumental ensemble of two violins Vl bassoon obbligato Fg and basso continuo 13 The duration of the cantata is about 17 minutes 7 In the following table of the movements the scoring follows the Neue Bach Ausgabe 13 The keys and time signatures are taken from Alfred Durr using the symbol for common time 4 4 The continuo playing throughout is not shown 7 Movements of Nach dir Herr verlanget mich BWV 150 No Title Text Type Vocal Bassoon Strings Key Time 1 Sinfonia Fg 2Vl B minor nbsp 2 Nach dir Herr verlanget mich Psalm 25 1 2 Chorus SATB Fg 2Vl B minor nbsp 3 Doch bin und bleibe ich vergnugt anon Aria S 2Vl B minor nbsp 4 Leite mich in deiner Wahrheit Psalm 25 5 Chorus SATB Fg 2Vl B minor 5 Zedern mussen von den Winden anon Aria A T B Fg D major 3 4 6 Meine Augen sehen stets zu dem Herrn Psalm 25 15 Chorus SATB Fg 2Vl D major 6 8 7 Meine Tage in dem Leide anon Chorus SATB Fg 2Vl B minor 3 2Music editThe work begins with a sinfonia and then alternates choral movements and arias There are no recitatives no da capo repeats and there is no chorale tune unusually for Bach s cantatas Bach makes extensive use of choral fugues and imitative polyphony often shifting the tempo and character of the music within movements very quickly to accommodate a new musical idea with each successive phrase of text The sinfonia and the opening choral movement are both based on the motive of an octave leap followed by five descending half steps This chromatic figure sometimes dubbed the lamento bass or passus duriusculus has been utilized by composers as early as Monteverdi as a musical representation of anguish pain and longing 14 The sinfonia also introduces thematic material developed later in the work uses asymmetric phrasing and a seamless flow of unstoppable melody 15 The first chorus on the beginning of Psalm 25 Nach dir Herr verlanget mich Mein Gott ich hoffe auf dich Lord I long for you My God I hope in you 2 is waywardly constructed despite its relative brevity It is episodic emphasizing a descending chromatic scale motif The musicologist Tadashi Isoyama notes the graphically chromatic phrases of the opening sinfonia and the following chorus these are evocative of the suffering of the world 3 The following soprano aria Doch bin und bleibe ich vergnugt Yet I am and remain content 2 is also brief but includes significant word painting 15 The fourth movement Leite mich in deiner Wahrheit und lehre mich Lead me in your Truth and teach me 2 is another short and episodic chorus divided into four sections 15 Movement five Zedern mussen von den Winden oft viel Ungemach empfinden Cedars must before the winds often feel much hardship 2 is one of only a handful of vocal trios to be found in Bach s oeuvre as well as the only movement in the cantata in all major Isoyama writes the continuo part drives the music forward with its phrase describing the trials of the stormwinds 3 The penultimate movement Meine Augen sehen stets zu dem Herrn features a celestial haze of instruments as part of a complex texture 15 It is in binary form and modulates from D major through B minor to B major 16 The final movement Meine Tage In Dem Leide is a chaconne a form which is typically constructed over a repeated ground bass Bach uses a ground bass which is possibly a borrowing from Pachelbel It is the inversion of the chromatic fourth ostinato from the opening movement 17 Bach s orchestration includes strumming effects which could be seen as recalling the origin of the chaconne in Spanish guitar music 18 From a theological point of view both the inversion of the lamento bass and the series of modulations in this movement express in baroque musical affect how Christ leads from sorrow to joy 17 Selected recordings editHeinrich Schutz Chor Heilbronn Wurttembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn dir Fritz Werner Les Grandes Cantates de J S Bach Vol 28 Erato 1973 Knabenchor Hannover Collegium Vocale Gent Leonhardt Consort dir Gustav Leonhardt J S Bach Das Kantatenwerk Complete Cantatas Vol 36 Teldec 1985 Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra amp Choir dir Ton Koopman J S Bach Complete Cantatas Vol 1 Antoine Marchand 1994 Bach Collegium Japan dir Masaaki Suzuki Bach Cantatas Vol 1 BIS 1995 Monteverdi Choir English Baroque Soloists dir John Eliot Gardiner Bach Cantatas Soli Deo Gloria 2000 Voces8 dir Barnaby Smith After Silence III Redemption Voces8 2020 Notes edit There is a consensus that this is one of the earliest Bach cantatas possibly the earliest extant BWV is Bach Werke Verzeichnis a thematic catalogue of Bach s works References edit Towe Teri Noel The Portrait in Erfurt Alleged to Depict Bach the Weimar Concertmeister The Face Of Bach Archived from the original on 16 July 2011 Retrieved 28 April 2014 a b c d e Dellal Pamela BWV 150 Nach dir Herr verlanget mich Emmanuel Music Retrieved 3 September 2022 a b c d Isoyama Tadashi 1995 Cantata No 150 Nach dir Herr verlanget mich BWV 150 PDF Bach Cantatas p 7 Retrieved 26 January 2016 Green 2000 Whittaker 1959 Zwang amp Zwang 2005 a b c Durr Alfred Jones Richard D P 2006 The Cantatas of J S Bach With Their Librettos in German English Parallel Text Oxford University Press pp 7 8 ISBN 9780199297764 Grob Jochen 2014 BWV 150 BC B 24 in German Lexikon Geschichte Baden Wurttemberg Retrieved 23 March 2016 van Hengel Eduard Eduard van Hengel eduardvanhengel nl in Dutch Retrieved 17 June 2021 a b John Eliot Gardiner 2006 Cantatas for the First Sunday after Easter Quasimodogeniti Johann Sebastian Bach Kirche Arnstadt PDF Bach Cantatas pp 1 4 Retrieved 24 March 2016 Oron Aryeh 2015 Cantata BWV 150 Nach dir Herr verlanget mich Bach Cantatas Retrieved 23 March 2016 Smith Craig 2012 Bach Cantata Notes BWV 150 Emmanuel Music Retrieved 3 September 2022 a b Bischof Walter F BWV 150 Nach dir Herr verlanget mich University of Alberta Retrieved 1 June 2013 Jeffers 2000 p 44 a b c d Mincham Julian 2010 Chapter 63 BWV 150 Nach dir Herr verlanget mich jsbachcantatas com Retrieved 3 September 2022 Kuerti Julian Notes on BWV 150 juliankuerti com Retrieved 23 March 2013 a b Botticher Jorg Andreas Einfuhrung in die Kantaten vom 14 Marz 2010 bachkantaten ch Retrieved 23 March 2013 Silbiger Alexander 1999 Bach and the Chaconne The Journal of Musicology 17 3 358 385 doi 10 2307 764098 JSTOR 764098 Sources editGreen Jonathan 2000 A Conductor s Guide to the Choral Orchestral Works of J S Bach Scarecrow Press Jeffers Ron 2000 Translations and Annotations of Choral Repertoire Volume 2 German Texts Earthsongs Whittaker William Gillies 1959 The Cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach Vol 1 Oxford University Press Young W Murray 1989 The Cantatas of J S Bach An Analytical Guide McFarland amp Co Zwang Philippe Zwang Gerard 2005 Guide pratique des cantates de Bach Second revised and augmented edition in French L Harmattan pp 52 53 ISBN 9782296426078 External links editNach dir Herr verlanget mich BWV 150 performance by the Netherlands Bach Society video and background information Nach dir Herr verlanget mich BWV 150 Scores at the International Music Score Library Project Nach dir Herr verlanget mich BWV 150 BC B 24 Sacred cantata Leipzig University on Bach digital Nach dir Herr verlanget mich BWV 150 University of Vermont Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Nach dir Herr verlanget mich BWV 150 amp oldid 1217198447, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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