Ärgre dich, o Seele, nicht, BWV 186
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Ärgre dich, o Seele, nicht BWV
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| Church cantata by J. S. Bach | |
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| Movements | 11 in two parts; originally 6 |
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| Vocal | SATB choir and solo |
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Ärgre dich, o Seele, nicht (Do not be confounded, o soul),BWV 186, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed it originally in Weimar in 1716 for Advent, BWV 186a, and expanded it in Leipzig in 1723 for the seventh Sunday after Trinity, where he first performed it on 11 July 1723.
The prescribed readings for the Sunday were from the First Epistle to the Corinthians, the ministry of faithful apostles (), and from the Gospel of Matthew, John the Baptist in prison (). The cantata is based on a cantata text written by Salomo Franck for the third Sunday of Advent, published in Evangelische Sonn- und Fest-Tages-Andachten in 1717. His lyrics contained movements 1, 3, 5, 8, 10 of the later work and a different closing chorale of Ludwig Helmbold. Bach composed the music, BWV 186a, in 1716 in Weimar, where he first performed it on 13 December 1716.
A reconstruction of the cantata by Diethard Hellmann was published in 1963.
As Leipzig observed tempus clausum (time of silence) from Advent II to Advent IV, Bach could not perform the cantata there in Advent and expanded it to a cantata in two parts for the seventh Sunday after Trinity, as he had expanded Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147, just before for 2 July 1723. He added recitatives, changed the words of the arias slightly, replaced the closing chorale by verse 11 of the chorale "Es ist das Heil uns kommen her" (1523) of Paul Speratus, and added verse 12 of that chorale to close part 1 of the cantata.
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