Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685–1750)
Wachet! Betet! Betet! Wachet! BWV 70.1; BWV 70a; BC [A 4]
Sacred cantata (2nd Sunday of Advent)
- Scoring
- S solo, A solo, T solo, B solo, S, A, T, B, Tromba (?), Oboe (?), Violine I, Violine II, Viola, Bassono (?), Violoncello (obl. in Satz 3?), Basso continuo
- Early performances
- , Weimar (Premiere)
- Comment
- EZ vor dem 06. Dezember 1716; 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
- Source
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D-B Mus.ms. Bach St 95 [Original source]
- Static URL
- https://www.bach-digital.de/receive/BachDigitalWork_work_00000089 [XML] [MEI] [JSON-LD]
- gnd
- 116137261X
- Last changed
- 2019-03-11 : 07:57:41
