Bach digital - Du wahrer Gott und Davids Sohn [Probestück-Fassung in h] BWV 23.2

unday next before Lent/Quinquagesima Sunday/Estomihi, Cantata Cycle I (1723/1724)

Other catalogues: NV 1790, S. 76 [6]
Genre: Sacred cantata
Proper: Psalm: Psalm 31
Epistel: 1. Korinther 13, 1-13
Gospel: Lukas 18, 31-43
Scoring: Sopran solo, Alt solo, Tenor solo, Bass solo, Sopran, Alt, Tenor, Bass, Clarino (bei Wiederaufführung 1724 ersetzt durch: Cornetto und Trombone I, Trombone II, Trombone III), Oboe d’amore I, Oboe d’amore II, Violine I, Violine II, Viola, Basso continuo

Date of origin, Work history: vor dem 07. Februar 1723
First performance on February 7, 1723. For this performance, as part of the Leipzig Cantorate audition (Dok. II No. 122–124), where the work (in B minor) was played after the sermon as the second cantata, Bach added as movement 4 a (newly composed?) motet-like choral setting with obligatory instruments, which was then reused in 1725 (in G minor) as the conclusion of BWV 245.2. Subsequent performance on February 20, 1724 (autograph notations for Trombone parts I–III)
Early performances: 7 February 1723, Leipzig, St. Thomas Church (Premiere) (Link to event)
20 February 1724, Leipzig, St. Thomas Church (Link to event)
relation to other works:: is part of BWV diverse [1. Jg.]
is revision of BWV 23.1 / BC A 47a
relation from other works:: has revision BWV 23.3
Link to videos:: Du wahrer Gott und Davids Sohn, BWV 23.2, (Netherlands Bach Society)

Author Libretto

unknown author

Libretto

Author unknown; Movement 4: Agnus Dei (German, Braunschweig, 1528)
Link to lyrics

Chorale

Satz 4:
Deutsche Übersetzung, "Agnus Dei", 1528

Original sources: D-B Mus.ms. Bach St 16, Faszikel 1 [Part(s)]
D-B Mus.ms. Bach St 16, Faszikel 2 [Part(s)]
D-Bsa SA 5175 (7), Faszikel 1 [Part(s)]
Additional sources: D-B Mus.ms. Bach P 1021 [Score]
D-B Mus.ms. Bach P 1159/X, Faszikel 3 [Score]
D-B Mus.ms. Bach P 469, Faszikel 1 [Score]
D-B N.Mus.ms. 10072-7 [Score]
D-Bsa SA 18 [Part(s)]
D-Bsa SA 5175 (7), Faszikel 2 [Part(s)]
D-Bsa SA 834, Faszikel 3 [Score]
Verschollen Sing-Akademie BWV 23/4, Partitur [Score]

Edition

NBA I/8.1, S. 69 (Christoph Wolff, 1992) – Critical report (1998), S. 28;

BG 5/1, S.95 (Mischfassung; W. Rust, 1855)

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