Er rufet seinen Schafen mit Namen, BWV 175
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Er rufet seinen Schafen mit Namen BWV 175 |
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| Church cantata by J. S. Bach | |
Christiana Mariana von Ziegler, author of the cantata text
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| Occasion | Pentecost Tuesday |
| Performed | 22 May 1725: Leipzig |
| Movements | 7 |
| Cantata text | Christiana Mariana von Ziegler |
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| Chorale | by Johann Rist |
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Er rufet seinen Schafen mit Namen (He calls His sheep by name),BWV 175, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed the cantata in Leipzig for the third day of Pentecost and first performed it on 22 May 1725.
Bach wrote the cantata in his second year in Leipzig for Pentecost Tuesday. In this second year Bach had composed chorale cantatas between the first Sunday after Trinity and Palm Sunday, but for Easter returned to cantatas on more varied texts, possibly because he lost his librettist. Nine of his cantatas for the period between Easter and Pentecost are based on texts of Christiana Mariana von Ziegler. Bach later assigned most of them, including this cantata, to his third annual cycle.
The prescribed readings for the feast day were from the Acts of the Apostles, the Holy Spirit in Samaria (), and from the Gospel of John, the Good Shepherd (). The cantata is thematically divided in two parts, movements 1 to 4 and movements 5 to 7, but performed consecutively. Both begin with a quotation from the gospel. The first part deals with Jesus as the Good Shepherd and the sheep who hear his voice. The second part deals with those who don't hear this voice. The poet uses the term "verblendete Vernunft" (deluded reason), possibly addressing the attitude of the intellectual movement "Aufklärung" (Age of Enlightenment). The cantata is closed with the ninth stanza of Johann Rist's hymn "O Gottes Geist, mein Trost und Ruh".
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