Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147
| Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben | |
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| BWV 147 | |
| Church cantata by J. S. Bach | |
Heimsuchung, topic of the cantata
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| Related | based on BWV 147a |
| Occasion | Visitation |
| Performed | 2 July 1723: Leipzig |
| Movements | 10 in two parts |
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| Chorale | by Martin Jahn |
| Vocal | SATB choir and solo |
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Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben (Heart and mouth and deed and life),BWV 147, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. It was written originally in Weimar in 1716 (BWV 147a) for Advent and expanded in 1723 for the feast of the Visitation in Leipzig, where it was first performed on 2 July 1723.
Bach composed the cantata in his first year as Thomaskantor in Leipzig for the Marian feast "Mariae Heimsuchung" (Visitation). The prescribed readings for the feast day were , the prophecy of the Messiah, and from the Gospel of Luke, , Mary's visit to Elizabeth, including her song of praise, the "Magnificat". He used as a base a cantata in six movements composed in Weimar for the fourth Sunday in Advent. As Leipzig observed tempus clausum (time of silence) from Advent II to Advent IV, Bach could not perform the cantata for that occasion and rewrote it for the feast of the Visitation. The original words were suitable for a feast celebrating Mary in general; more specific recitatives were added, the order of the arias changed, and the closing chorale was replaced and repeated on a different verse to expand the cantata to two parts. The words are verses 6 and 16 of the hymn "Jesu, meiner Seelen Wonne" (1661) by Martin Jahn.
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