Jesu, der du meine Seele, BWV 78

Jesu, der du meine Seele
BWV 78
Chorale cantata by J. S. Bach
Johann Rist, the author of the hymn
Occasion14th Sunday after Trinity
Chorale"Jesu, der du meine Seele"
by Johann Rist
Performed10 September 1724 (1724-09-10): Leipzig
Movementsseven
VocalSATB choir and solo
Instrumental
  • horn
  • flauto traverso
  • 2 oboes
  • 2 violins
  • viola
  • violone
  • continuo

Jesu, der du meine Seele (Jesus, you who [rescued] my soul),[1] BWV 78, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed it in Leipzig for the 14th Sunday after Trinity and first performed it on 10 September 1724. It is based on the 1641 hymn by Johann Rist, "Jesu, der du meine Seele", for which it is named. The topic of the chorale, the Passion of Jesus cleansing the believer, is only distantly related to the Sunday's readings.

Jesu, der du meine Seele belongs to Bach's chorale cantata cycle, the second cycle during his tenure as Thomaskantor that began in 1723. The text retains the first and last stanza of the hymn unchanged, while the text of the inner stanzas was paraphrased by an unknown librettist into a sequence of five movements of alternating arias and recitatives, retaining several more lines from the original chorale. The first movement is a chorale fantasia in passacaglia form, and the work is closed by a four-part chorale setting.

The cantata is scored for four vocal soloists, a four-part choir, and a Baroque instrumental ensemble of flauto traverso, two oboes, strings and basso continuo, with a horn in the opening chorus. Bach achieved expression of contrasting affects in dramatic recitatives, anguish in "contrapuntal density"[2] and accessible arias illustrating hope.

History and words

Bach composed Jesu, der du meine Seele in his second year in Leipzig when he wrote an annual cycle of chorale cantatas. For the 14th Sunday after Trinity, 10 September 1724, he chose the chorale of Johann Rist, "Jesu, der du meine Seele", in 12 stanzas, published in 1641.[3][2] Rist wrote the text and probably also the melody.[4] The prescribed readings for the Sunday were from the Epistle to the Galatians, Paul's teaching on "works of the flesh" and "fruit of the Spirit" (Galatians 5:16–24), and from the Gospel of Luke, Cleansing ten lepers (Luke 17:11–19).[3][5] The chorale seems only distantly related, dealing with the Passion of Jesus,[2] which cleanses the believer.[5]

An unknown librettist wrote the poetry for seven movements, retaining the first and last stanza for choral movements unchanged, and paraphrased the inner stanzas into a sequence of recitatives and arias, retaining some original lines. The second movement 2 corresponds to stanza 2 of the chorale, the third to stanzas 3–5, the fourth to stanzas 6–7, the fifth to stanzas 8–10, and the sixth to stanza 11.[3] The poet referred to sickness and healing in a few lines, more than the chorale does, such as "Du suchst die Kranken" (you search for the sick).[5]

Bach led the Thomanerchor in the first performance on 10 September 1724. An additional autograph flauto traverso part indicates at another performance between 1736–1740, an autograph violone part a performance after 1745. The cantata was performed again around 1755 when C. F. Barth and C. F. Penzel were interim music directors.[3]

Music

Structure and scoring

Bach structured the cantata in seven movements and scored it for four vocal soloists (soprano, alto, tenor and bass), a four-part choir, and a Baroque instrumental ensemble of a horn (Co) to reinforce the chorale tune in the outer movements, flauto traverso (Ft), two oboes (Ob), two violins (Vl), viola (Va), violone (Vo) and basso continuo, including pipe organ.[3][6]

In the following table of the movements, the scoring, keys and time signatures are taken from Alfred Dürr's Die Kantaten von J. S. Bach, using the symbol for common time (4/4).[5] The instruments are shown separately for winds and strings, while the continuo, playing throughout, is not shown.

Movements of Jesu, der du meine Seele
No. Title Text Type Vocal Winds Strings Key Time
1 Jesu, der du meine Seele Rist Chorus SATB Co Ft 2Ob 2Vl Va G minor 3/4
2 Wir eilen mit schwachen, doch emsigen Schritten anon. Aria / duet S A Vo B-flat major common time
3 Ach! ich bin ein Kind der Sünden anon. Recitative T common time
4 Das Blut, so meine Schuld durchstreicht anon. Aria T Ft G minor 6/8
5 Die Wunden, Nägel, Kron und Grab anon. Recitative B 2Vl Va common time
6 Nur du wirst mein Gewissen stillen anon. Aria B Ob 2Vl Va C minor common time
7 Herr, ich glaube, hilf mir Schwachen Rist Chorale SATB Co Ft 2Ob 2Vl Va G minor common time

Movements

The cantata is remarkable for its widely contrasting affects, painful intensity in "contrapuntal density" in the opening, accessible music in the arias, and dramatic intensity in the recitatives.[2] John Eliot Gardiner who conducted the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage in 2000 noted that "an exceptional level of inspiration is maintained through all its movements".[7]

1

The opening chorus, "Jesu, der du meine Seele ... herausgerissen" (Jesus, you, who my soul ... powerfully rescued).[1] is a chorale fantasia in the form of a passacaglia. The theme, known as passus duriusculus or chromatic fourth, appears 27 times, sometimes reversed, sometimes in different keys.[8] It is also used in the upper parts and in the voices.[2] In the first pages it appears twice in the bass (bars 1–9), then at the top of the texture played by the first oboe at bar 9. It appears in inverted form sung by the choir altos at bar 25 and, a bar later, by the tenors.[8] The theme is understood as a symbol of anguish.[2]

This passacaglia bass was already in use before Bach. He had used it first in movement 5 of his early cantata for Easter Christ lag in Todes Banden, BWV 4, and notably in Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen, BWV 12, which was a model for the Crucifixus of his Mass in B minor.[7]

The movement falls into sections for the lines of the chorale. Each section builds up from imitative entrances of the choir's lower voices leading to the sopranos singing the hymn tune as a cantus firmus. A variety of motifs is used in the instrumental and lower vocal parts to express the meaning of the words,[2] following the doctrine of the affections, which stated that specific emotions could be aroused by appropriate musical gestures.[9]

Gardiner wrote that the movement compares to the opening movements of both the St John Passion and the St Matthew Passion in "scale, intensity and power of expression".[7]

2

The duet for soprano and alto, "Wir eilen mit schwachen, doch emsigen Schritten, o Jesu, o Meister, zu helfen zu dir" (We hasten with weak, yet eager steps, O Jesus, O Master, to you for help),[1] speaks of rushing steps, shown predominantly in the figures of the continuo. Gardiner described it as "smile-inducing music".[7][10]

3

The tenor recitative, "Ach! ich bin ein Kind der Sünden" (Alas! I am a child of sin),[1] begins and ends with lines quoted from the chorale.[1] It begins secco, but ends in an arioso. The tenor voice in Bach's works often stands for the "sinful human being"; the music expresses awareness of sinfulness in "audacious harmonies", according to Ulrich Leininger writing for Carus-Verlag.[2]

4

The aria, again for tenor, "Das Blut, so meine Schuld durchstreicht, macht mir das Herze wieder leicht" (The blood that cancels my guilt makes my heart light again),[1] is accompanied by flute motifs to express the relief of the heart.[2][7]

5

The recitative for bass, "Die Wunden, Nägel, Kron und Grab" (The wounds, nails, crown and grave),[1] is accompanied by strings, reminiscent of the vox Christi (voice of Christ) in Bach's St Mathew Passion.[2] It is marked with unusual precision: vivace, adagio, andante, con ardore. Bach achieved a dramatic impact, intensified by leaps in the vocal line. The end is a prayer set as an arioso with allusions to the chorale tune.[2]

6

The last aria, also for bass, "Nun du wirst mein Gewissen stillen" (Now you will still my conscience),[1] is similar to a concerto for oboe and the voice.[2]

7

The closing chorale, "Herr, ich glaube, hilf mir Schwachen, laß mich ja verzagen nicht" (Lord, I believe, help my weakness, let me never despair),[1] sets the original tune for four parts.[5] The instruments play colla parte with the voices.[6]


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soprano = \relative c'' { \global
  d4 d a bes |
  c bes8 a a4 g\fermata |
  bes bes a g |
  fis g a2\fermata |
  d4 d a bes |
  c bes8 a a4 g\fermata |
  bes bes a g |
  fis g a2\fermata |
  a4 bes c a |
  bes a8 g g4 f\fermata |
  bes c d d |
  ees d8 c c4 bes\fermata |
  d d c d |
  bes c d2\fermata |
  d4 d c bes |
  a a g2\fermata \bar "|."
}

alto = \relative c'' { \global
  g4 g a g |
  g g fis d |
  d ees ees8 d d c |
  c4 d d2 |
  d4 g fis g |
  g g fis d |
  d ees ees8 d d c |
  c4 d d2 |
  fis4 g g f |
  f f e c |
  f g8 a bes4 bes |
  bes bes a f |
  f f f8 ees d4 |
  d g fis2 |
  g4 g a g |
  g fis d2
}

tenor = \relative c' { \global
  bes8 c d4 d d |
  c8 d ees4 d8 c bes4 |
  g g g8 fis g4 |
  a bes fis2 |
  bes8 c d4 d d |
  c8 d ees4 d8 c bes4 |
  g g g8 fis g4 |
  a bes fis2 |
  d'4 d c c |
  bes8 c d4 c8 bes a4 |
  bes ees f f |
  es8 f g4 f8 ees d4 |
  bes bes a a |
  g8 bes a g a2 |
  bes8 c d4 ees d |
  ees d8 c b2
}

bass = \relative c' { \global
  g8 a bes4 fis g |
  ees c d g, |
  g'8 f ees d c d ees4 |
  a, g d'2 |
  g,8 a bes c d4 g8 f |
  ees d c4 d g, |
  g'8 f ees d c d ees4 |
  a, g d'2 |
  d4 g8 f ees4 f |
  d bes c f |
  d c bes bes'8 a |
  g f ees4 f bes, |
  bes8 c d ees f4 fis |
  g8 f! ees4 d2 |
  g8 a bes4 fis g |
  c, d g,2
}

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  \new ChoirStaff <<
    \new Staff \with { midiInstrument = "choir aahs" }
    <<
      \new Voice = "soprano" { \voiceOne \soprano }
      \new Voice = "alto" { \voiceTwo \alto }
    >>
    \new Lyrics \lyricsto "soprano" {
      Herr, ich glau -- be, hilf mir _ Schwa -- chen,
      lass mich ja ver -- za -- gen nicht;
      du, du kannst mich stär -- ker _ ma -- chen,
      wenn mich Sünd und Tod an -- flicht.
      Dei -- ner Gü -- te will ich _ trau -- en,
      bis ich fröh -- lich wer de _ schau -- en
      dich, Herr Je -- su, nach dem Streit
      in der sü -- ßen E -- wig -- keit.
    }
    \new Staff \with { midiInstrument = "choir aahs" }
    <<
      \clef bass
      \new Voice = "tenor" { \voiceOne \tenor }
      \new Voice = "bass" { \voiceTwo \bass }
    >>
  >>
  \layout { }
  \midi { \tempo 4=82 }
}

Manuscripts and publication

The cantata's autograph score is lost. The first set of parts, copied essentially by Johann Andreas Kuhnau and Christian Gottlob Meißner with Bach supervising, was inherited by Anna Magdalena Bach and belonged to the Thomasschule already in 1750. It is held by the Bach Archive. Flute parts for movements 1 and 7 were added only for a performance after 1735.[2]

The cantata was first published in 1870 in the first complete edition of Bach's work, the Bach-Gesellschaft Ausgabe. The volume in question was edited by Thomaskantor Wilhelm Rust.[2] In the Neue Bach-Ausgabe it was published in 1958, edited by Werner Neumann,[3][2] with a critical report following in 1959.[3]

Recordings

A list of recordings is provided on the Bach Cantatas Website.[11][12] Choirs singing with one voice per part (OVPP) and ensembles playing period instruments in historically informed performances are shown with a green background.

Recordings of Jesu, der du meine Seele
Title Conductor / Choir / Orchestra Soloists Label Year Choir type Orch. type
Les Grandes Cantates de J. S. Bach Vol. 7 Fritz Werner
Heinrich-Schütz-Chor Heilbronn
Pforzheim Chamber Orchestra
Erato 1960
Bach Cantatas Vol. 4 – Sundays after Trinity Karl Richter
Münchener Bach-Chor
Münchener Bach-Orchester
Archiv Produktion 1961 (1961)
J. S. Bach: Cantatas BWV 78 & BWV 106 Wolfgang Gönnenwein
Süddeutscher Madrigalchor
Consortium Musicum
EMI 1965 (1965)
Bach: Das Kantatenwerk (7) Hermann Max
Dormagener Kantorei
Collegium Instrumentale Köln
FSM Candide 1975 (1975) Period
J. S. Bach: Das Kantatenwerk • Complete Cantatas • Les Cantates, Folge / Vol. 20 Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Tölzer Knabenchor
Concentus Musicus Wien
Teldec 1977 (1977) Period
Cantatas BWV 172 & BWV 78 Erhard Mauersberger
Thomanerchor
Gewandhausorchester
Eterna 1978 (1978)
Die Bach Kantate Vol. 10 Helmuth Rilling
Gächinger Kantorei
Bach-Collegium Stuttgart
Hänssler 1979 (1979)
Bach: Das Kantatenwerk (7) Joshua Rifkin
The Bach Ensemble
Florilegium Digital 1988 (1988) OVPP Period
Bach Edition Vol. 12 – Cantatas Vol. 6 Pieter Jan Leusink
Holland Boys Choir
Netherlands Bach Collegium
Brilliant Classics 1999 (1999) Period
Bach Cantatas Vol. 7: Ambronay / Bremen[7][10] John Eliot Gardiner
Monteverdi Choir
English Baroque Soloists
Soli Deo Gloria 2000 (2000) Period
J. S. Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 12 Ton Koopman
Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir
Antoine Marchand 2000 (2000) Period
J. S. Bach: Cantatas Vol. 25 – Cantatas from Leipzig 1724 (BWV 78, 99, 114) Masaaki Suzuki
Bach Collegium Japan
BIS 2003 (2003) Period
Bach: Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern – Cantata BWV 1, 48, 78 & 140 Karl-Friedrich Beringer
Windsbacher Knabenchor
Deutsche Kammer-Virtuosen Berlin
Sony Music 2011 (2011)

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