Tue Rechnung! Donnerwort, BWV 168
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Tue Rechnung! Donnerwort BWV 168 |
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| Church cantata by J. S. Bach | |
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| Occasion | Ninth Sunday after Trinity |
| Performed | 29 July 1725: Leipzig |
| Movements | 6 |
| Cantata text | Salomon Franck |
| Chorale | by Bartholomäus Ringwaldt |
| Vocal | SATB solo and choir |
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Tue Rechnung! Donnerwort (Settle account! Word of thunder),BWV 168, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed it in Leipzig for the ninth Sunday after Trinity and first performed it on 29 July 1725.
Bach set a text by Salomo Franck a librettist with whom he had worked in Weimar. The text, which Franck had published in 1715, uses the prescribed reading from the Gospel of Luke, the parable of the Unjust Steward, as a starting point for thoughts about the debt of sin and its "payment", using monetary terms. He concluded the text with a stanza from Bartholomäus Ringwaldt's hymn "Herr Jesu Christ, du höchstes Gut". Bach structured the cantata in six movements and scored it intimately, as he did for many of Franck's works, for four vocal parts, combined only in the chorale, two oboes d'amore, strings and basso continuo. It is the first new composition in his third year as Thomaskantor in Leipzig.
Bach composed the cantata in Leipzig for the ninth Sunday after Trinity as the first cantata of his third cantata cycle, being the first new composition in his third year as Thomaskantor in Leipzig. The libretto is by Salomon Franck who was a court poet in Weimar. Bach had often set Franck's texts when he was Konzertmeister (concertmaster) there from 1714 to 1717. Franck published the text of Tue Rechnung! Donnerwort in 1715 as part of the collection Evangelisches Andachts-Opffer, and Bach would probably have used at the time had it not been for a period of mourning for Prince Johann Ernst of Saxe-Weimar.
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