Wachet! betet! betet! wachet [Weimarer Fassung] BWV 70.1; BWV 70a; BC [A 4]

Sacred cantata (2nd Sunday of Advent)

Scoring

S*, A*, T*, B*, Tr, [Ob,] Vl I/II, Va, Bc

Date of origin

vor dem 06. Dezember 1716

Early performances

6 December 1716, Weimar (Premiere)

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

Lyrics

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

Edition

NBA I/1, -- (Alfred Dürr, 1955) – Critical report (1955), S. 86

Original sources

D-B Mus.ms. Bach St 95

Static URL

https://www.bach-digital.de/receive/BachDigitalWork_work_00000089

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2021-04-28 : 05:01:06