• Wünschet Jerusalem Glück

BWV 1139.2; BWV Anh. I 4a [1998]; BWV Anh. I 4; BWV Anh. 4; BC [B 29]

Genre

• Sacred cantata

Scoring

• nicht überliefert

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Date of origin, Work history

• vor dem 27. Juni 1730

• First performance on June 27, 1730, at St. Nikolai on the third day of the celebrations for the anniversary of the Augsburg Confession, in a version of BWV 1139.1 (see text print Picander 1732, page 73: Cantaten auf das Jubel-Feste der | der übergebenen Augspurgischen Con- | fession 1730 [Cantatas for the Jubilee Festival of the Augsburg Confession 1730]; following are the text prints of BWV 190.2 and BWV 120.3, which were performed on the two preceding days). The music is lost, but Bach’s authorship is evidenced by parodic relations to BWV 1139.1 and by a footnote in the text print Sicul 1731 I, page 1126 (Von dem Cantore oppidano, Herr Johann Sebastian Bachen, sonst Anhalt-Cöthenischen Capellmeister, componirt [Composed by the town cantor, Mr. Johann Sebastian Bach, otherwise Anhalt-Cöthen’s Capellmeister]), which also refers to the cantatas for the three festive days.
  Sequence of movements (according to text print by Picander 1732) and relationships to parodies:
  1. [Coro]: Wünschet Jerusalem Glück, siehe BWV 1139.1/1
  2. Aria: Rühm und lobe, sing und preise, siehe BWV 1139.1/2
  After the sermon
  3. [Recit.]: Hier ist des HErren Tempel
  4. Aria: HErr, erhöre, was wir bitten, siehe BWV 1139.1/5
  5. Recit.: Gib HErr, dein Wort den frommen Christen
  6. Choral: Ach bleib bey uns, HErr JESU Christ [in text print Sicul 1731 I also stanza 2]

Early performances

1730-27-06, Leipzig, St. Nicholas Church (Premiere) (Link to event)
Predigt: Friedrich Wilhelm Schütz

relation to other works:

is part of BWV diverse [o.Jg.]

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Libretto

• C. F. Henrici (partly a parody after BWV 1139.1). Movement 1: Psalm 122, 6–7. Movement 6: Stanza 1 "Ach bleib bei uns, Herr Jesu Christ" (N. Selnecker, 1611; with Stanza 1: Germanized Vespera iam venit by P. Melanchthon, 1579; Stanza 2: In dieser letzt’n betrübten Zeit by N. Selnecker, 1572). Text print: Sicul 1731 I, page 1130 (On the III Jubilee Day. | In the Church of St. Nicolai); Picander 1732, page 77 (On the III Jubilee Day.)

Link to lyrics

Chorale

Satz 6: N. Selnecker, Ach bleib bei uns, Herr Jesu Christ, 1611, Strophe 1 in: P. Melanchthon, Verdeutschtes Vespera iam venit, 1579

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Additional sources

Es sind keine handschriftlichen Quellen überliefert. [unknown]

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Literature

• Neumann 1967, S. 396 (Textwiedergabe)/Neumann 1974, S. 334 (Faksimile); Schabalina BJ 2008 (S. 91: Faksimile Originaltextdruck)

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BachDigitalWork_work_00001312

Static URL

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2023-08-29 07:32:47