Wachet! betet! betet! wachet [Weimarer Fassung] BWV 70.1; BWV 70a; BC [A 4]GND
- Genre
- Sacred cantata
- Designation of a cantata
- 2nd Sunday of Advent
- Scoring
- S*, A*, T*, B*, Tr, [Ob,] Vl I/II, Va, Bc
- Early performances
- , Weimar (Premiere) (Link to event)
- relation to other works:
- is part of BWV diverse [W. Kant.]
- relation from other works:
- has revision BWV 70.2
- Comment
- original version of BWV 70. Apart from the original string parts the music is lost. Correspondences as follows: BWV 70.1/1 (chorus) = BWV 70.2/1; 70.1/2, 3, 4, 5 (aria 1, 2, 3, 4) = 70.2/3, 5, 8, 10; 70.1/6 (chorale) = 70.2/11
- Libretto
- Salomon Franck (Weimar/Jena 1717); mvt. 6: stanza 5 from 'Meinen Jesum lass ich nicht' by Christian Keymann (1658); libretto printing: Franck 1717
Link to lyrics
- Original sources
-
D-B Mus.ms. Bach St 95 [Part(s)]
- Edition
-
NBA I/1, -- (Alfred Dürr und Werner Neumann, 1954) – Critical report (1955), S. 86
- persistent ID
- BachDigitalWork_work_00000089
- Static URL
- https://www.bach-digital.de/receive/BachDigitalWork_work_00000089
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- Last changed
- 2022-02-28 : 11:19:30
