Bach digital - O ewiges Feuer, o Ursprung der Liebe [Pfingstkantate] BWV 34.2

Whitsun/Pentecost, without assignment

Other catalogues: BR-WFB N 169
Genre: Sacred cantata
Proper: Psalm: Psalm 51
Epistel: Apostelgeschichte 2, 1-13
Gospel: Johannes 14, 23-31
Scoring: Alt solo, Tenor solo, Bass solo, Sopran, Alt, Tenor, Bass, Tromba I, Tromba II, Tromba III, Timpani, Flauto traverso I, Flauto traverso II, Oboe I, Oboe II, Violine I, Violine II, Viola, Basso continuo

Date of origin, Work history: vor dem 01. Juni 1727
First performance on June 1, 1727 (original text print, see Schabalina BJ 2008); version only partially reconstructable (see below). Subsequent performance likely on May 29, 1746 (version of the new partially autographed score with revisions made on the occasion of the subsequent performance); further performance in 1746 in Halle by W. F. Bach (entries in partially autographed score). The creation, apart from the musical correspondence of movements 1, 3, and 5 with (see BWV 34.1, movements 1, 5, and 4), can only be partially reconstructed (ambiguous parody relationship)
Early performances: 1 June 1727, Leipzig (Premiere) (Link to event)
relation to other works:: is part of BWV diverse [o.Jg.]
is revision of BWV 34.1 / BC B 13
Comment: According to recent studies this version is the model for BWV 34a (not vice-versa)
: Introduction to the work
Link to videos:: O ewiges Feuer, o Ursprung der Liebe , BWV 34.2 (Netherlands Bachsociety)

Author Libretto

unknown author

Libretto

Author unknown. Movement 5 with the use of Psalm 128, verse 6. Original print: Leipzig 1727 III, page [3].
Link to lyrics

Bible verse

Satz 5:
mit Verwendung von Psalm 128,6

Original lyrics

RUS-SPsc 15.62.6.94 [Textdruck]

Original sources: D-B Am.B 39 [Score]
D-B Mus.ms. Bach St 73 [Part(s)]
RUS-SPsc 15.62.6.94 [Textdruck] [Libretto]

Edition

BG 7, S.117 (W. Rust, 1857);

NBA I/13, S. 129 (Dietrich Kilian, 1959) – Critical report (1960), S. 112

Literature

Schabalina BJ 2010

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