Siehe zu, daß deine Gottesfurcht nicht Heuchelei sei, BWV 179
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Siehe zu, daß deine Gottesfurcht nicht Heuchelei sei BWV 179 |
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| Church cantata by J. S. Bach | |
Fresco of Pharisee and tax collector
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| Occasion | Eleventh Sunday after Trinity |
| Performed | 8 August 1723: Leipzig |
| Movements | 6 |
| Cantata text | anonymous |
| Chorale | by Christoph Tietze |
| Vocal | SATB choir and solo |
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Siehe zu, daß deine Gottesfurcht nicht Heuchelei sei (See to it, that your fear of God be not hypocrisy),BWV 179, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed it in Leipzig for the eleventh Sunday after Trinity and first performed it on 8 August 1723.
Bach composed the cantata in his first year in Leipzig, which he had started after Trinity of 1723, for the eleventh Sunday after Trinity. The prescribed readings for the Sunday were from the First Epistle to the Corinthians, on the gospel of Christ and Paul's duty as an apostle (), and from the Gospel of Luke, the parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector (). The unknown poet stayed close to the gospel and alluded to several Bible passages. The cantata is opened by a line from . the closing chorale is the first stanza of Christoph Tietze's hymn "Ich armer Mensch, ich armer Sünder" (1663).
Bach first performed the cantata on 8 August 1723. Alfred Dürr assumes that Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut, BWV 199, composed for the same occasion in Weimar, was also performed in the service.
The cantata in six movements is scored for soprano, tenor and bass soloists and a four-part choir, two oboes da caccia, two violins, viola, and basso continuo.
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