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Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity, Weimar Cantatas, without assignment

Genre

Proper

Scoring

Alt solo, Tenor solo, Sopran, Alt, Tenor, Bass, Flauto dolce I, Flauto dolce II, Violine I, Violine II, Viola, Orgel obligato, Basso continuo

Date of origin, Work history

vor dem 27. September 1716

First performance on September 27, 1716 (due to state mourning, no first performance possible on 16th post Trinity 1715). Performed in E-flat major (low chamber pitch) [= C major (high pitch)]; subsequent performance likely on September 16, 1725 (text print by Birkmann 1728). A Berlin part set (D-B: St 469) preserves a non-authentic version (BWV²ᵃ 161 version B or BC A 135b) with variations in instrumentation: movement 1: Flauto traverso I/II, Violin I/II instead of Flauto dolce I/II, Viola as well as Soprano (Herzlich tut mich verlangen, stanza 1) instead of obligato organ; Movements 4–6: Flauto traverso I/II instead of Flauto dolce I/II. No connection between this version and any further performances by Bach is evident

Early performances

1716-27-09, Weimar, Himmelsburg (Schlosskirche) (Premiere) (Link to event)
Predigt: Johann Georg Layritz
WA vermutlich 16. September 1725

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Comment

For dating of 1. version (= Weimar version) s. Lit.: Dürr St 2, p. 65; A. Glöckner, in: BJ 1985, p. 159-64; A. Dürr, in: BJ 1987, p. 151-157; K. Hofmann, in BJ 1993, p. 1-22.
There is different opinion (performing in 1715, during the official period of mourning). s. W. W. Cowdery: "The Early Vocal Works of Johann Sebastian Bach", Diss. Cornell-University, Ithaca/New York 1989, p. 83-90 [s. K. Hofmann, in: BJ 1993, p. 22 (fn. 38)]

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Libretto

S. Franck. Movement 6: Herzlich tut mich verlangen (C. Knoll, 1610), stanza 4. Text prints: Franck 1715, page 162 (variations in movements 3–4); Birkmann 1728, page 123

Chorale