Wachet! betet! betet! wachet! BWV 70 (Johann Sebastian Bach)
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Complete work
- Contributor: Paolo Pandolfo (submitted 2017-01-25). Score information: A4, 42 pages, 2.47 MB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: scan of Bernhard Todt's piano-vocal score (English & German text)
Separate movements
7. Chorale: Freu dich sehr, o meine Seele
- Editor: Simone Olivieri (submitted 2000-12-13). Score information: A4, 1 page, 35 kB Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes:
- Possible error(s) identified. Error summary: The form of the melody seems to be from BWV 70, #7, but harmonization doesn't match. See the discussion page for full description.
General Information
Title: Wachet! betet! betet! wachet! BWV 70
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Lyricists: Salamo Franckcreate page and anonymous
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Cantata for Trinity 26
Language: German
Instruments: Orchestra: oboe, trumpet, strings, continuo
First published: 1868 in Bach-Gesellschaft Ausgabe, Band 16
Opus: BWV 70, 11 movements
Description: Performed 21 November 1723 in Leipzig. BWV 70a, for which string parts and a transposed continuo part survive, is an unexpanded setting of Salamo Franck's libretto for Advent II, probably performed 6 December 1716 in Weimar. 4 recitatives were added, as well as the choral dividing the 2 halves.
External websites:
- Free choir training aids for this work are available at Choralia.
- BWV 70 at the Petrucci Music Library (IMSLP)
View the Wikipedia article on BWV 70.
- German libretto at University of Alberta, Canada.
Original text and translations
Visit the external website(s) listed above for the original text and/or translations.
German text
Freu dich sehr, o meine Seele,
und vergiß all Not und Qual,
weil dich nun Christus, dein Herre,
ruft aus diesem Jammertal.
Aus Trübsal und großem Leid
sollst du fahren in die Freud,
die kein Ohr hat je gehöret,
die in Ewigkeit auch währet.
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