Alles, was von Gott geboren, BWV 80a

Alles, was von Gott geboren
BWV 80.1
Church cantata by J. S. Bach
The Schlosskirche in Weimar
Related	Base for BWV 80
Occasion	Oculi
Cantata text	Salomon Franck
Chorale	"Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott"
Movements	6

Alles, was von Gott geboren (All that is born of God), BWV 80.1 (formerly BWV 80a),^[1] is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed it in Weimar for Oculi, the third Sunday in Lent, and first performed it on 24 March 1715 or 15 March 1716. The music is lost, but Bach expanded on it in about 1730 to create his chorale cantata for Reformation Day, Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott, BWV 80.

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History and words

On 2 March 1714 Bach was appointed concertmaster of the Weimar court capelle of the co-reigning dukes Wilhelm Ernst and Ernst August of Saxe-Weimar. As concertmaster, he assumed the principal responsibility for composing new works, specifically cantatas for the Schlosskirche (palace church), on a monthly schedule.^[2] Bach wrote the cantata for Oculi, the third Sunday in Lent.^[3] The prescribed readings for the Sunday were taken from the Epistle to the Ephesians, advice for a righteous life (Ephesians 5:1–9), and from the Gospel of Luke, casting out a devil (Luke 11:14–28). The cantata text was written by the court poet Salomon Franck and published in 1715 in Evangelisches Andachts-Opffer. The text of the first movement paraphrases a verse from the First Epistle of John, "For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world" (1 John 5:4). The closing chorale is stanza 2 of Martin Luther's hymn Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott.

Possible dates for the first performance are 24 March 1715 (suggested by Alfred Dürr) and 15 March 1716 (proposed by Klaus Hofmann).^[4] Bach could not use the work in Leipzig, because no cantata music was performed there during Lent. He expanded on it in about 1730, resulting in his chorale cantata Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott, BWV 80, for Reformation Day. The first two movements, aria and recitative, were transformed to movements 2 and 3 of the later cantata, movements 4 and 5, recitative and aria, to movements 6 and 7.^[3]

Scoring and structure

The cantata is scored for four vocal soloists (soprano, alto, tenor, and bass) and a four-part choir. The instrumentation is unknown.^[5]

Aria (bass): Alles, was von Gott geboren
Recitative (bass): Erwäge doch, Kind Gottes, die so große Liebe
Aria (soprano): Komm in mein Herzenshaus
Recitative (tenor): So stehe denn bei Christi blutgefärbten Fahne
Aria (alto, tenor): Wie selig ist der Leib
Chorale: Mit unser Macht ist nichts getan

Music

Although the music is lost, aspects can be deduced from the later cantata for Reformation Day.^[4] Probably the first aria contained an instrumental cantus firmus of Luther's chorale Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott, sung by the soprano in BWV 80. Both recitatives begin secco and end as an arioso. The first one stresses the text "daß Christi Geist mit dir sich fest verbinde" (that Christ's Spirit to thine be firm united), the second "dein Heiland bleibt dein Hort" (your Saviour remains your shield). The closing chorale is a four-part setting of stanza 2 of Luther's hymn.^[3] Bach's harmonisation of that movement possibly survives in BWV 303.^[6]^[7]^[8]

References

^ Work 00100 at Bach Digital website.
^ Koster, Jan. "Weimar 1708–1717". let.rug.nl. Archived from the original on 28 March 2014. Retrieved 16 December 2011.
^ ^a ^b ^c Dürr, Alfred (1971). Die Kantaten von Johann Sebastian Bach (in German). Vol. 1. Bärenreiter-Verlag. OCLC 523584.
^ ^a ^b Dürr, Alfred; Jones, Richard D. P. (2006). The Cantatas of J. S. Bach: With Their Librettos in German-English Parallel Text. Oxford University Press. p. 255. ISBN 9780199297764.
^ "BWV 80a". University of Alberta. Retrieved 10 January 2013.
^ BWV^2a (1998), p. 85
^ Luke Dahn (2017), BWV 303 at www.bach-chorales.com
^ Work 00373 at Bach Digital website

External links

Alles, was von Gott geboren, BWV 80a: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project
Cantata BWV 80a Alles, was von Gott geboren: history, scoring, sources for text and music, translations to various languages, discography, discussion, bach-cantatas website
BWV 80a Alles, was von Gott geboren: English translation, University of Vermont

v t e Church cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach
Before Leipzig	Early: BWV 4 131 71 1138.1 & .2 106 196 150 143 Weimar: BWV 61 70a 186a 132 147a 63 152 155 18 54 80a 182 31 12 172 165 21 185 199 161 162 163 Köthen: BWV Anh. 5
First cycle (1723–24)	Between Trinity and Advent: BWV 75 76 24 167 147 186 136 105 46 179 69a 77 25 138 95 148 48 109 89 60 90 70 From Advent to Trinity: BWV 40 64 190 153 65 154 73 81 83 144 181 22 23 66 134 67 104 166 86 37 44 59 184
Second cycle (and chorale cantatas)	Chorale cantatas between Trinity and Easter: BWV 20 2 7 135 10 93 107 178 94 101 113 33 78 99 8 130 114 96 5 180 38 115 139 26 116 62 91 121 133 122 41 123 124 3 111 92 125 126 127 1 Continuation of the second cycle: BWV 6 42 85 103 108 87 128 183 74 68 175 176 Later additions to the chorale cantata cycle: BWV 80 137 129 58 112 140 177 9 14 Other late chorale cantatas: BWV 117 192 100 97
Third cycle	After Trinity 1725: BWV 168 164 79 Liturgical year 1725–26: BWV 110 57 151 28 16 32 13 72 146 43 39 88 170 187 45 102 35 17 19 27 47 169 56 49 98 55 52 1727: BWV 82 84 34 173
Later and other	Picander cycle: BWV 149 188 197a 171 156 159 145 174 Late parodies: BWV 36 30 191 200 248 (I, II, III, IV, V, VI) 1083 Council election (Leipzig): BWV 119 193 29 120 69 (lost: 1139.1, 1140–1141) Wedding: BWV 34a 195 120a 197 Funeral: 157 244a Other: 194 190a 120b 51 158 50 Doubtful: 53 142 189 217 220 221 223 224
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