Johann Sebastian Bach Johann Sebastian Bach (28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period. He is known for his orchestral music such as the '' Brandenburg Concertos''; instrumental compositions such as the Cello Suites; keyboard w ...

composed the

church cantata A church cantata or sacred cantata is a cantata intended to be performed during Christian liturgy. The genre was particularly popular in 18th-century Lutheran Germany, with many composers writing an extensive output: Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel, ...

' (Fortunate the person who upon his God), , in

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for the 23rd Sunday after

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and first performed it on 12 November 1724. The

chorale cantata A chorale cantata is a church cantata based on a chorale—in this context a Lutheran chorale. It is principally from the Germany, German Baroque music, Baroque era. The organizing principle is the words and music of a Lutheran hymn. Usually a chora ...

is based on the

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by Johann Christoph Rube (1692).

History and words

Bach composed the chorale cantata in his second year in Leipzig for the 23rd Sunday after Trinity. The prescribed readings for the Sunday were from the

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, "our conversation is in heaven" (), and from the

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, the question about paying taxes, answered by '' Render unto Caesar...'' (). The cantata is based on the hymn in five

stanza In poetry, a stanza (; from Italian language, Italian ''stanza'' , "room") is a group of lines within a poem, usually set off from others by a blank line or Indentation (typesetting), indentation. Stanzas can have regular rhyme scheme, rhyme and ...

s by Johann Christoph Rube (1692). It is sung to the melody of

Johann Hermann Schein Johann Hermann Schein (20 January 1586 – 19 November 1630) was a German composer of the early Baroque era. He was Thomaskantor in Leipzig from 1615 to 1630. He was one of the first to import the early Italian stylistic innovations into German ...

"" (1628). An unknown poet retained the first and the last stanza as the cantata's outer

movements Movement may refer to: Common uses * Movement (clockwork), the internal mechanism of a timepiece * Motion, commonly referred to as movement Arts, entertainment, and media Literature * "Movement" (short story), a short story by Nancy Fu ...

. He derived the four inner movements as a sequence of alternating

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s and

recitative Recitative (, also known by its Italian name "''recitativo''" ()) is a style of delivery (much used in operas, oratorios, and cantatas) in which a singer is allowed to adopt the rhythms and delivery of ordinary speech. Recitative does not repea ...

s from the inner stanzas. He based movement 2 on stanza 2, movements 4 and 5 on stanzas 3 and 4, and inserted movement 3, based on the gospel. According to

Hans-Joachim Schulze Hans-Joachim Schulze (born 3 December 1934) is a German musicologist, a Bach scholar who served as the director of the Bach Archive in Leipzig from 1992 to 2000. With Christoph Wolff, he was editor of the ''Bach-Jahrbuch'' (Bach yearbook) from 19 ...

in ''Die Welt der Bach-Kantaten'' (vol. 3), Andreas Stöbel, a former co-rector of the

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is a likely author of the chorale cantata texts, since he had the necessary theological knowledge, and Bach stopped the cantata sequence a few weeks after he died on 31 January 1725. Bach first performed the cantata on 12 November 1724. He performed it again between 1732 and 1735, and between 1744 and 1747. For the second movement, the part for an

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violin is extant, but the part of a second obbligato instrument, possibly a second violin or an oboe d'amore, is missing.

Scoring and structure

The cantata in six movements is intimately scored for four vocal soloists (

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alto The musical term alto, meaning "high" in Italian (Latin: ''altus''), historically refers to the contrapuntal part higher than the tenor and its associated vocal range. In 4-part voice leading alto is the second-highest part, sung in choruses by ...

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and

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), a four-part choir, and a Baroque instrumental ensemble of two

oboes d'amore The oboe d'amore (; Italian for "oboe of love"), less commonly , is a double reed woodwind musical instrument in the oboe family. Slightly larger than the oboe, it has a less assertive and a more tranquil and serene tone, and is considered the ...

, two

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, and

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. # Chorale: ' # Aria (tenor): ' # Recitative (alto): ' # Aria (bass): ' # Recitative (soprano): ' # Chorale: '

Music

The opening chorus is a

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. Strings and the two oboes d'amore play concertante music, to which the soprano sings the

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, and the lower voices interpret the text, speaking of "child-like trust of the true believer" in the first section, of "all the devils" in the second, "he nonetheless remains at peace" in the third. The key is

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, a rare, "rather extreme" key at Bach's time, as

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Julian Mincham notes: only about a third of Bach's chorale cantatas begins in a

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at all, and only two in E major, the other being ''Liebster Gott, wenn werd ich sterben?'' BWV 8, "a musing on death and bereavement and one of his most personal works". In the tenor aria, movement 2, the motif of the first line "" (God is my friend) appears again and again in the voice and the instruments. The voice is "more convoluted" when the raging enemies and the "", those who ridicule or mock, are mentioned. In movement 4, a bass aria with solo violin and the oboes d'amore in

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, Bach changes seamlessly from loud double-dotted music to "the most nonchalant texture imaginable" in 6/8

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to illustrate the text "But a helping hand suddenly appears", compared by

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to "God's outstretched hand as painted by Michelangelo in the

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Recordings

* ''Bach Cantatas Vol. 5 – Sundays after Trinity II'', Karl Richter,

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1978 * ''Die Bach Kantate Vol. 58'',

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, soloist of the Tölzer Knabenchor,

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, Katharine Fuge,

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, Soli Deo Gloria 1998 * ''J.S. Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 11'',

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, Gallus Media 2008

Notes

References

Sources

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Wohl dem, der sich auf seinen Gott BWV 139; BC A 159 / Chorale cantata (23rd Sunday after Trinity)

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Cantata BWV 139 Wohl dem, der sich auf seinen Gott
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BWV 139 – "Wohl dem, der sich auf seinen Gott"
Cantata notes,

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BWV 139 Wohl dem, der sich auf seinen Gott
English translation,

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BWV 139 Wohl dem, der sich auf seinen Gott
text, scoring,

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BWV 139.6
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