Ich habe genug, BWV 82
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BWV
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| Solo church cantata by J. S. Bach | |
Simeon's Song of Praise in a painting by Aert de Gelder, c. 1700–1710
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| Original | Ich habe genung |
| Occasion | Purification of Mary |
| Performed | 2 February 1727: Leipzig |
| Movements | 5 |
| Cantata text | anonymous |
| Vocal | solo bass (82a: soprano) |
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Ich habe genug (original: Ich habe genung, English: "I have enough" or "I am content"), BWV 82, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed the solo cantata for bass in Leipzig in 1727 for the Feast Mariae Reinigung (Purification of Mary) and first performed it on 2 February 1727. In a version for soprano, BWV 82a, possibly first performed in 1731, the part of the obbligato oboe is replaced by a flute. Part of the music appears in the Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach.
Bach composed the cantata in his fourth year in Leipzig for the feast Purification of Mary. The prescribed readings for the feast day were taken from the book of Malachi, "the Lord will come to his temple" (), and from the Gospel of Luke, the purification of Mary and the presentation of Jesus at the Temple, including Simeon's canticle Nunc dimittis (), on which the libretto is based. In previous years Bach had composed two cantatas concentrating on Simeon's canticle, Erfreute Zeit im neuen Bunde, BWV 83 in 1724 and the chorale cantata on Martin Luther's paraphrase of the canticle, Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin, BWV 125, in 1725. More than in these earlier works, an anonymous poet stresses the desire to escape earthly misery and be united with Jesus.
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