Bach digital -

Tuesday of Easter Week, without assignment

Genre

Proper

Scoring

Sopran solo, Bass solo, Sopran, Alt, Tenor, Bass, Oboe, Violine solo, Basso continuo

Date of origin, Work history

Leipziger Zeit (ca. 1725 oder später); früheste Quelle ca. 1735 (Choralabschrift J. L. Dietel)

Date of composition unknown, presumably Leipzig (before 1734/35, see Choral in the Dietel collection); the cantata may possibly be based on an unknown earlier work (see text). The exclusively posthumous preservation also mentions the Feast of the Purification of Mary as the cantata’s intended purpose

relation to other works:

is part of BWV diverse [o.Jg.]

relation from other works:

is adapted in BWV 158/4 ChSBC F 26.4b

Link to videos:

Der Friede sei mit dir, BWV 158 (Netherlands Bach Society)

Libretto

Author unknown. Perhaps composed of two heterogeneous parts; Movements 2–3: originally intended for the Feast of the Purification of the Virgin Mary; Movement 2 utilizes Welt, ade, ich bin dein müde (J. G. Albinus, date of composition 1649; first print 1652), stanza 1. Movement 4: Christ lag in Todes Banden (M. Luther, 1524), stanza 5

Author Chorale

Luther, Martin (1483–1546)
Albinus, Johann Georg (1624-1679)

Chorale

Satz 2:
Johann Georg Albinus, "Welt, ade, ich bin dein müde", 1649, Strophe 1
in: Johann Georg Albinus, mit Vertonung von Johann Rosenmüller, abgedruckt anlässlich des Todes der zweiten Tochter Abraham Tellers, Johanna Elisabeth, 1652, Faksimile in NBA I/23 KB, Seite 195f.

Chorale