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''Der Gerechte kömmt um'' (' The righteous perishes'), 1149, is a
motet In Western classical music, a motet is mainly a vocal musical composition, of highly diverse form and style, from high medieval music to the present. The motet was one of the preeminent polyphonic forms of Renaissance music. According to the Eng ...
for SSATB singers and instrumental ensemble, which, for its music, is based on the five-part
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motet ''Tristis est anima mea'' attributed to
Johann Kuhnau Johann Kuhnau (; 6 April 16605 June 1722) was a German polymath, known primarily as a composer today. He was also active as a novelist, translator, lawyer, and music theorist, and was able to combine these activities with his duties in his offici ...
, and has the
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translation of Isaiah 57:1–2 as text. The
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of the Latin motet, that is, transposing it to
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, adjusting its music to the new text, and expanding it with an instrumental score for two
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s, two
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s, strings and
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, is attributed to
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. The setting is found in a manuscript copy, likely written down in the 1750s, of ''
Wer ist der, so von Edom kömmt ''Wer ist der, so von Edom kömmt'' is a pasticcio Passion oratorio based on compositions by Carl Heinrich Graun, Georg Philipp Telemann, Johann Sebastian Bach and others. The pasticcio was assembled around 1750. The only extant manuscript of t ...
'', a Passion oratorio which is a
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based on compositions by, among others,
Carl Heinrich Graun Carl Heinrich Graun (7 May 1704 – 8 August 1759) was a German composer and tenor. Along with Johann Adolph Hasse, he is considered to be the most important German composer of Italian opera of his time. Biography Graun was born in Wahrenbrüc ...
,
Georg Philipp Telemann Georg Philipp Telemann (; – 25 June 1767) was a German Baroque composer and multi-instrumentalist. He is one of the most prolific composers in history, at least in terms of surviving works. Telemann was considered by his contemporaries to b ...
and Bach. Likely ''Der Gerechte kömmt um'' existed as a stand-alone motet, for example for performance on
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or at a funeral, before being adopted in the pasticcio.''Instrumental and Supplement''
at , pp. 127–128


Music

The oldest extant source for the ''Tristis est anima mea'' motet attributed to
Johann Kuhnau Johann Kuhnau (; 6 April 16605 June 1722) was a German polymath, known primarily as a composer today. He was also active as a novelist, translator, lawyer, and music theorist, and was able to combine these activities with his duties in his offici ...
is D-B Mus.ms. 12263/3, an 18th-century manuscript previously known as
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Mus.ms. autogr. J. Kuhnau 1. This score, written by an unknown scribe (not Kuhnau in any case), originated between the 1720s and around 1760. The oldest extant source for ''Der Gerechte kömmt um'' is D-B Mus.ms. 8155, which contains the score of ''
Wer ist der, so von Edom kömmt ''Wer ist der, so von Edom kömmt'' is a pasticcio Passion oratorio based on compositions by Carl Heinrich Graun, Georg Philipp Telemann, Johann Sebastian Bach and others. The pasticcio was assembled around 1750. The only extant manuscript of t ...
'', a pasticcio Passion oratorio. This manuscript originated in the second half of the 1750s. The pasticcio's components include 31 movements from
Carl Heinrich Graun Carl Heinrich Graun (7 May 1704 – 8 August 1759) was a German composer and tenor. Along with Johann Adolph Hasse, he is considered to be the most important German composer of Italian opera of his time. Biography Graun was born in Wahrenbrüc ...
's ''Ein Lämmlein geht und trägt die Schuld'', GraunWV B:VII:4 (composed between 1725 and 1735), two movements of a
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by
Georg Philipp Telemann Georg Philipp Telemann (; – 25 June 1767) was a German Baroque composer and multi-instrumentalist. He is one of the most prolific composers in history, at least in terms of surviving works. Telemann was considered by his contemporaries to b ...
(
TWV The Telemann-Werke-Verzeichnis (Telemann Works Catalogue), abbreviated TWV, is the numbering system identifying compositions by Georg Philipp Telemann, published by musicologist Martin Ruhnke. The prefix TWV is generally followed by a Music genre, ...
 1:1585, composed in 1722) and a variant of the opening chorus of
Johann Sebastian Bach Johann Sebastian Bach (German: Help:IPA/Standard German, �joːhan zeˈbasti̯an baχ ( – 28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque music, Baroque period. He is known for his prolific output across a variety ...
's cantata ''Herr Jesu Christ, wahr' Mensch und Gott'', BWV 127 (composed in 1725).Aart van der Wal. ''Soli Deo Gloria: The Leipzig Bach Festival 2008'' �
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The exact time of origin of either the ''Tristis est anima mea'' motet or ''Der Gerechte kömmt um'' can not be ascertained, and, according to Daniel R. Melamed, it can even not be excluded that the latter was composed first, and that the Latin motet was derived from it. Usually, however, it is assumed that ''Der Gerechte kömmt um'' was arranged from the motet attributed to Kuhnau. Stylistically, the motet attributed to Kuhnau leans on earlier Italian models. Spitta, Philipp. '' Johann Sebastian Bach: his work and influence on the music of Germany, 1685–1750'', translated by Clara Bell and John Alexander Fuller-Maitland, In Three Volumes. Vol. II, pp
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, 1884.
There is, for instance, some similarity between the ''Tristis est anima mea'' motet attributed to Kuhnau and a 16th-century motet with the same text by
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: both are five-part
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compositions with F as tonal center, and they both have a similar succession of entries of the vocal parts, with these parts switching to
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on the same words. The motet attributed to Kuhnau is written for two
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voices,
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,
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and
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, which are the same vocal forces as those required for the ''Der Gerechte kömmt um'' version. Apart from the concluding 114th bar, which has the duration of a double
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, the
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of the Latin motet is
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. ''Der Gerechte kömmt um'' has the same meter, and 16 more bars of music. This setting, in
E minor E minor is a minor scale based on E, consisting of the pitches E, F, G, A, B, C, and D. Its key signature has one sharp, on the F. Its relative major is G major and its parallel major is E major. The E natural minor scale is: Change ...
, that is half a tone lower than the Latin motet version in
F minor F minor is a minor scale based on F, consisting of the pitches F, G, A, B, C, D, and E. Its key signature consists of four flats. Its relative major is A-flat major and its parallel major is F major. Its enharmonic equivalent, E-sharp ...
, opens with an instrumental prelude of 8 bars, written for two oboes, two
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s,
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and continuo. The same 8 bars of music, transposed to
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, are also inserted as an interlude further on in the ''Der Gerechte kömmt um'' version. Two traversos play
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with the first
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. The motet attributed to Kuhnau is structured in eight sections, each of which consecutively sets one of the eight phrases of the Latin text. The German arrangement is structured as an instrumental prelude followed by a block treating the first four phrases of the German text, followed by an instrumental interlude, and concluded by a block that treats the last four phrases of the German text. According to
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, the instrumental introduction prefigures
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's Requiem, K. 626. The continuo largely follows the vocal bass during the singing, and may even be derived from a lost continuo part of the Latin motet, if it ever had one. The violin and viola parts often stay close to the singers' middle voices. The two oboe parts are entirely independent of the melody lines of the vocalists, and enrich the
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. The instrumental parts also add contrasting rhythmical patterns. John W. Grubbs compares the orchestral setting with a similar one in the "Qui tollis" movement of Bach's Mass in B minor.
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also sees similarities with the instrumental parts of BWV 48/1 and 118.2. The vocal parts of the motet attributed to Kuhnau and the ''Der Gerechte kömmt um''
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are not entirely identical: differences seem mostly inspired by differences in text expression and diction between the German and Latin texts. Changes in the vocal parts, which include addition of transition notes, also lead to different harmonies, and to a closer connection of some of the consecutive phrases. 18th-century sources, such as the D-B Mus.ms. 8155 manuscript, carry no indication of how and when the ''Der Gerechte kömmt um'' version originated. According to Grubbs, the middle voices of the work lack the elasticity which is characteristic for a composition by Bach. The intricacies of the German version, including its additional instrumental material and various adjustments to vocal lines, point to Bach as arranger, while they are in line with what is known from arrangements the composer produced of his own work and that of others.


Text

The Latin text of the motet attributed to Kuhnau, " Tristis est anima mea usque ad mortem" ('My soul is sorrowful even unto death'), is traditionally associated with
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, that is the week leading up to
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, as it is the second
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, one of the responsories associated with
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in traditional
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. Such responsories remind
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's suffering, leading up to his death, which is the central theme of
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services on
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. The text of the ''Der Gerechte kömmt um'' version of the motet, the
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translation of Isaiah 57:1–2, is the German version of another such responsory, indicated as " Ecce quomodo moritur justus" in Latin ('Behold how the just man dies'). On content, there is enough correspondence between the "Tristis est" and the Isaiah 57:1–2 texts to fit the same music. The Isaiah 57:1–2 text, even more than the "Tristis est" text, was adopted in Protestantism as part of Good Week services: like in Catholicism, where it was the 24th responsory for Holy Week, it was a common part of the main service held on Good Friday. For instance in Leipzig, where the text, in
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's motet setting of its Latin version, was already customary as part of Good Friday services before Gallus's setting was published with a German translation in the 17th-century ''
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''. The setting of the third phrase (), bars 28–38, ends on a
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surprising
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, which, according to Grubbs, prefigures passages from
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's 19th-century ''German Requiem'', Op. 45. The last phrase before the instrumental intermezzo () is repeated. The fifth phrase () is set homophonically. The sixth phrase () is, like the fourth, repeated. According to Gardiner, the composition culminates in the bar of silence between the seventh phrase () and the coda of the last phrase ().


Passion oratorio movement

The ''Wer ist der, so von Edom kömmt'' pasticcio Passion oratorio has 42 movements. Part I of the pasticcio has 18 movements, exclusively derived from Telemann's cantata TWV 1:1585 (first two movements) and from Part I of Graun's Passion cantata ''Ein Lämmlein geht und trägt die Schuld'' (remaining 16 movements). Part II of the Passion oratorio starts with two Bach movements, respectively a variant of BWV 127/1, and BWV 1088, and has 15 movements derived from Part II of Graun's Passion cantata. Its narrative is carried by 6 inserted stanzas of
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's hymn " Christus, der uns selig macht". "Der Gerechte kömmt um" is the 39th movement of the pasticcio, placed between four-part settings of the 6th and 7th stanzas of Weiße's hymn: these stanzas respectively portray a scene of Jesus hanging at the cross (before his death), and the burial of Jesus. The Isaiah 57:1–2 text, lamenting the death of the righteous, is placed between these stanzas as a meditation on Christ's death. It is not the only occurrence of texts from the
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in the Passion oratorio: four movements adopted from the Graun cantata, respectively Nos. 17, 3, 7 and 11 in the pasticcio, have as text. Around 1800, a set of performance parts of the "Der Gerechte kömmt um" choir was extracted from the D-B Mus.ms. 8155 manuscript, likely for a performance of the movement by the
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. In a 1872 publication,
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described the 39th movement of the Passion oratorio thus: In January 1990,
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, conducting the Rheinische Kantorei and Das Kleine Konzert, recorded the ''Wer ist der, so von Edom kömmt'' pasticcio, including the "Der Gerechte kömmt um" movement with a performance time of 4:24. In the first half of 2019,
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conducted
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and the Saxon Baroque Orchestra Leipzig in a recording of the Passion oratorio, the performance time of its 39th movement being 5:28. Another recording of the pasticcio was realized in 2020, by György Vashegyi conducting the Purcell Choir and Orfeo Orchestra, with a performance time of 5:58 for the "Der Gerechte kömmt um" movement.


Motet

There are reasons why ''Der Gerechte kömmt um'' likely was a motet in its own right before it was adopted into the ''Wer ist der, so von Edom kömmt'' pasticcio: first, its model, the ''Tristis est anima mea'' setting attributed to Kuhnau, was a stand-alone motet, also, most of the movements of the pasticcio demonstrably existed before being adopted in the Passion oratorio, and further, the colla parte flutes rather seem an addition designed to exploit the full orchestral forces needed for a performance of the Passion oratorio, than an original part of the ''Der Gerechte kömmt um'' composition. In an article published in 2002,
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identified the scribe of the D-B Mus.ms. 8155 manuscript as Johann Christoph Farlau: that identification made it less likely than previously thought that Bach would have been involved in the compilation of the ''Wer ist der, so von Edom kömmt'' pasticcio, thus, if ''Der Gerechte kömmt um'' was arranged by Bach, it must have been adopted in the pasticcio from a separate composition. A stand-alone ''Der Gerechte kömmt um'' motet may, in the first half of the 18th century, have been intended for a performance during Good Week (e.g. as a modernized version replacing an earlier Latin motet), and/or as a motet to be sung at funerals. Around 1972, Hänssler published ''Der Gerechte kömmt um'' as a motet for two oboes, strings and continuo, edited by Hellmann. After being marked BWV
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for several decades, the motet arrangement, attributed to Bach, was given the BWV number 1149. In November 1978, the Choir of
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, and the
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, conducted by
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and the
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(performance time: 6:56).
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conducted the Gächinger Kantorei and the Bach-Collegium Stuttgart in a 1990 recording of the motet (performance time: 4:47). , conducting the Kodály Choir and Bach-Collegium of
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, recorded the motet in 1992 (performance time: 5:16). Regularly performing ''Der Gerechte kömmt um'' as an
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, Gardiner recorded the motet live in July 2000, as part of the
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.Der Gerechte kommt um
at Hyperion website.
This recording, with a performance time of 7:41, was released in 2009, and was in 2018 also included in the Bach 333 box set with the complete recordings of Bach's work. A recording of the motet by the , conducted by , was released in March 2003 (performance time: 5:05). Raphaël Pichon recorded the motet with in October 2007 (performance time: 6:23).JS Bach - Missae Breves BWV 234 & 235
at Presto Classical website.
In April 2017, the
American Bach Soloists The American Bach Soloists (ABS) is an American baroque orchestra based in the San Francisco Bay Area. The orchestra was founded in Belvedere, California, in 1989. Performers share music from Johann Sebastian Bach and his contemporaries during the ...
, conducted by Jeffrey Thomas, performed the motet in concert, and recorded it.


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Motet 'Der Gerechte kömmt um'
– discography list at IDAGIO website {{DEFAULTSORT:Gerechte kommt um Motets