Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 177
| Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ | |
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| BWV 177 | |
| Chorale cantata by J. S. Bach | |
Johann Agricola, author of the chorale
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| Occasion | Fourth Sunday after Trinity |
| Performed | 6 July 1732: Leipzig |
| Movements | 5 |
| Chorale | by Johann Agricola |
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Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ (I call to You, Lord Jesus Christ),BWV 177, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed the chorale cantata in Leipzig for the fourth Sunday after Trinity and first performed it on 6 July 1732. The cantata text is formed by the unchanged five stanzas of Johann Agricola's hymn.
Bach composed the cantata in Leipzig as late as 1732 in order to complete his second annual cycle of chorale cantatas of 1724/25, which lacked a cantata for the Fourth Sunday after Trinity because that Sunday had been the Feast of Visitation in 1725, celebrated then by Meine Seel erhebt den Herren, BWV 10.
The prescribed readings for the Sunday were from the Epistle to the Romans, "For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God" (), and from the Sermon on the Mount in the Gospel of Luke: the admonition to "be merciful", "judge not" (). The cantata text is formed by the unchanged five stanzas of Johann Agricola's chorale (ca. 1530), a main hymn for the Sunday, used also in Bach's cantata Barmherziges Herze der ewigen Liebe, BWV 185, written in Weimar. In Gelobet sei der Herr, mein Gott, BWV 129, also composed to complete the second annual cycle of chorale cantatas, Bach also used the unchanged words of the chorale, different from the cantatas originally composed for the cycle.
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