Herr, wie du willt, so schicks mit mir, BWV 73
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Herr, wie du willt, so schicks mit mir BWV 73 |
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| Church cantata by J. S. Bach | |
Thomaskirche, Leipzig
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| Occasion | Third Sunday after Epiphany |
| Performed | 23 January 1724: Leipzig |
| Movements | 5 |
| Cantata text | anonymous |
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| Chorale | by Kaspar Bienemann |
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Herr, wie du willt, so schicks mit mir (Lord, as you will, so let it be done with me),BWV 73, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed it in 1724 in Leipzig for the third Sunday after Epiphany and first performed it on 23 January 1724.
Bach wrote the cantata in his first year in Leipzig for the Third Sunday after Epiphany. The prescribed readings for the Sunday were taken from the Epistle to the Romans, rules for life (), and from the Gospel of Matthew, the healing of a leper (). The unknown poet takes the words of the leper "Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean" as a starting point and recommends his attitude of trust for the situation of facing death. In the first movement he contrasts lines of Kaspar Bienemann's chorale "Herr, wie du willst, so schick's mit mir" with three sections of recitative. Movement 3 paraphrases . The words of movement 4 are the leper's words from the Gospel. The closing chorale is the final stanza of Ludwig Helmbold's hymn "Von Gott will ich nicht lassen".
Bach first performed the cantata on 23 January 1724, and performed it again in a revised version on 21 January 1748 or 26 January 1749.
The cantata in five movements is scored for soprano, tenor and bass soloists, a four-part choir, horn (replaced by organ in the revised version), two oboes, two violins, viola, and basso continuo.
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