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Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ, BWV 91

{{Short description|1724 church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach}}

{{Good article}}{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2024}}

{{Infobox Bach composition

| name = {{lang|de|Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ}}

| bwv = 91

| image = Lucas Cranach d.Ä. - Porträt des Martin Luther, 1525 (Bristol).jpg

| caption = Martin Luther, author of the hymn, in 1525,
by Lucas Cranach the Elder

| type = {{hlist| Christmas cantata | Chorale cantata}}

| performed = {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|1724|12|25|df=y}}|location=Leipzig}}

| movements = 6

| chorale = {{based on|"{{langr|de|Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ}}"|Martin Luther}}

| vocal = SATB choir and solo

| instrumental = {{hlist | 2 horns | timpani | 3 oboes | 2 violins | viola | continuo }}

}}

{{lang|de|Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ}} (Praise be to You, Jesus Christ),{{sfn|Dellal|2024}} {{abbr|BWV|Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis (catalogue of Bach's works)}}{{nbsp}}91, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. He wrote the Christmas cantata in Leipzig in 1724 for Christmas Day and first performed it on 25 December. It is based on the hymn "{{langr|de|Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ}}" by Martin Luther which was 200 years old when Bach wrote the work.

The cantata belongs to Bach's chorale cantata cycle, the second cantata cycle during his tenure as Thomaskantor that began in 1723. The cantata text retains the first and last stanza of the chorale unchanged for a chorale fantasia and a four-part chorale setting, while an unknown librettist paraphrased the inner stanzas into alternating recitatives and arias.

The cantata is scored for four vocal soloists, a four-part choir, and a Baroque instrumental ensemble of two horns, timpani, three oboes, strings and basso continuo.

History and words

{{lang|de|Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ}} from Bach's chorale cantata cycle is based on the main chorale for Christmas Day, Luther's "{{langr|de|Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ}}". This song was published in 1524, thus was 200 years old when Bach composed his work.{{sfn|Schulze|2006}} Its beginning summarizes Christmas in two lines: "{{langr|de|Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ, daß du Mensch geboren bist}}" (Praise be to You, Jesus Christ, since You were born a man).{{sfn|Dellal|2024}} All seven stanzas end with the acclamation {{langr|grc|Kyrieleis}}. The cantata was Bach's first composed for Christmas Day in Leipzig; in his first year in Leipzig 1723 he had chosen to perform {{lang|de|Christen, ätzet diesen Tag, BWV 63|italic=unset}} again, written for the occasion earlier in Weimar.{{sfn|Mincham|2010}}

The prescribed readings for the feast day were from the Epistle to Titus, "God's mercy appeared" ({{Sourcetext|source=Bible|version=King James|book=Titus|chapter=2|verse=11|range=–14}}) alternating with Isaiah, "Unto us a child is born" ({{Sourcetext|source=Bible|version=King James|book=Isaiah|chapter=9|verse=2|range=–7}}), and from the Gospel of Luke, the Nativity, Annunciation to the shepherds and the angels' song ({{Sourcetext|source=Bible|version=King James|book=Luke|chapter=2|verse=1|range=–14}}).{{sfn|Bach Digital|2024}}{{sfn|Dürr|Jones|2006|p=[https://books.google.de/books?id=m9JuwslMcq4C&pg=PA91 91]}} Typical for Bach's chorale cantata cycle, an unknown librettist retained the first and the last stanza unchanged, but paraphrased the ideas of the inner stanzas into alternating recitatives and arias.{{sfn|Schulze|2006}} In this cantata, the complete text of the second stanza was also retained for the first recitative but expanded there line by line with new text.{{sfn|Schulze|2006}}

Bach led the Thomanerchor in the first performance of the cantata on 25 December 1724.{{sfn|Schulze|2006}}{{sfn|Bach Digital|2024}} He performed the cantata again four more times on 25 December, in 1731, in 1732 or 1733, and twice in the 1740s,{{sfn|Bach Digital|2024}} even after his Christmas Oratorio had been first performed in 1734 for which he also used two stanzas of the same chorale.{{sfn|Bach Digital 248 I|2024}}{{sfn|Bach Digital 248 III|2024}}

Music

= Structure and scoring =

Bach structured {{lang|de|Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ}} in six movements. Both text and tune of the hymn are retained in the outer movements, a chorale fantasia and a four-part closing chorale.{{sfn|Dürr|1981}} Bach scored the work for four vocal soloists (soprano (S), alto (A), tenor (T) and bass (B)), a four-part choir, and a Baroque instrumental ensemble of two horns (Co), timpani (Ti), three oboes (Ob), two violin parts (Vl), a viola part (Va) and basso continuo.{{sfn|Bach Digital|2024}} The duration of the cantata is given as 20 minutes.{{sfn|Dürr|Jones|2006|p=94}} Bach would later use the pair of horns in Part IV of his Christmas Oratorio.{{sfn|Bach Digital 248|2024}}

In the following table of the movements, the scoring, keys and time signatures are taken from Alfred Dürr's standard work {{lang|de|Die Kantaten von Johann Sebastian Bach}}.{{sfn|Dürr|Jones|2006|pp=94–95}} The continuo, which plays throughout, is not shown.

{{Classical movement header | show_text_source = yes | work = {{lang|de|Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ}} | instruments1 = Winds | instruments2 = Strings }}

{{Classical movement row

| id = m1

| number = 1

| title = {{langr|de|Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ}}

| text_source = Luther

| type = Chorale fantasia

| vocal = SATB

| instruments1 = {{nowrap|2Co Ti 3Ob}}

| instruments2 = 2Vl Va

| key = G major

| time = {{music|common-time}}

}}

{{Classical movement row

| id = m2

| number = 2

| title = {{langr|de|Der Glanz der höchsten Herrlichkeit}}

| text_source = anon., Luther

| type = Recitative and chorale

| vocal = S

| instruments1 =

| instruments2 =

| key =

| time = {{music|common-time}}

}}

{{Classical movement row

| id = m3

| number = 3

| title = {{langr|de|Gott, dem der Erden Kreis zu klein}}

| text_source = anon.

| type = Aria

| vocal = T

| instruments1 = 3Ob

| instruments2 =

| key = C major

| time = {{music|time|3|4}}

}}

{{Classical movement row

| id = m4

| number = 4

| title = {{langr|de|O Christenheit! Wohlan}}

| text_source = anon.

| type = Recitative

| vocal = B

| instruments1 =

| instruments2 = 2Vl Va

| key =

| time = {{music|common-time}}

}}

{{Classical movement row

| id = m5

| number = 5

| title = {{langr|de|Die Armut, so Gott auf sich nimmt}}

| text_source = anon.

| type = Aria Duetto

| vocal = S A

| instruments1 =

| instruments2 = 2Vl

| key = E minor

| time = {{music|common-time}}

}}

{{Classical movement row

| id = m6

| number = 6

| title = {{langr|de|Das hat er alles uns getan}}

| text_source = Luther

| type = Chorale

| vocal = SATB

| instruments1 = 2Co Ti 3Ob

| instruments2 = 2Vl Va

| key = G major

| time = {{music|common-time}}

}}

{{End}}

= Movements =

== 1 ==

The opening chorus, "{{langr|de|Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ}}" (All praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ),{{sfn|Schulze|2006}} makes use of four choirs: the voices, the horns, the oboes and the strings. The material from the ritornellos, running scales against sustained thirds in the horns,{{sfn|Gardiner|2005}} is present also in interludes between the five lines and as accompaniment for the vocal parts. The choral melody is sung by the soprano. The lower voices are set in imitation for the first and the last line, in chords for the second and fourth line, and in a combination in the central line{{sfn|Dürr|1981}} "{{langr|de|Von einer Jungfrau, das ist wahr}}" (From a virgin, this is true).{{sfn|Dellal|2024}} John Eliot Gardiner, who conducted the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage in 2000, noted the 17th-century roots of the movement.{{sfn|Gardiner|2005}}

== 2 ==

A recitative for soprano, "{{langr|de|Der Glanz der höchsten Herrlichkeit}}" (The radiance of the highest glory),{{sfn|Dellal|2024}} prepares each line of the chorale stanza with contemporary lines. While the new text is set as secco recitative, the chorale lines use the chorale tune, accompanied by a repetition of the first line of the chorale in double tempo.{{sfn|Dürr|1981}}

== 3 ==

The tenor aria, "{{langr|de|Gott, dem der Erden Kreis zu klein}}" (God, for whom the orb of the earth is too small),{{sfn|Dellal|2024}} is accompanied by three oboes.{{sfn|Dürr|1981}}{{sfn|Gardiner|2005}}

== 4 ==

In a recitative for bass, "{{langr|de|O Christenheit! Wohlan, so mache die bereit}}" (O Christianity! Now then, make yourself ready),{{sfn|Dellal|2024}} the strings illuminate the voice.{{sfn|Dürr|1981}} It is a slow accompagnato that depicts the "vale of tears" with an ascending chromatic line in the bass voice.{{sfn|Gardiner|2005}}

== 5 ==

The last aria, "{{langr|de|Die Armut, so Gott auf sich nimmt}}" (The poverty that God takes upon himself),{{sfn|Dellal|2024}} is a duet for soprano and alto, contrasting "{{langr|de|Armut}}" (poverty) and "{{langr|de|Überfluss}}" (abundance), "{{langr|de|Menschlich Wesen}}" (human being), rendered in ascending chromatic lines, and "{{langr|de|Engelsherrlichkeiten}}" (angelic splendours),{{sfn|Dellal|2024}} shown in coloraturas and triadic melodies.{{sfn|Dürr|1981}} The violins in unison play a dotted motif. Bach reworked the cantata in the 1730s and then added "lilting syncopations" to the voices, illustrating people trying to sing like angels.{{sfn|Gardiner|2005}}

== 6 ==

At times the horns have independent parts in the closing chorale,{{sfn|Dahn|2024}} "{{langr|de|Das hat er alles uns getan}}" (He has done all this for us);{{sfn|Dellal|2024}} they especially embellish the final {{langr|grc|Kyrieleis}}{{sfn|Dürr|1981}} to what Gardiner called "a rousing two-bar cadence".{{sfn|Gardiner|2005}}

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Ky -- ri -- e -- leis!

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Manuscripts and publication

The first set of parts belongs to the Bach Archive.{{sfn|Bach Digital|2024}} The cantata was first published in 1875 in the first complete edition of Bach's work, the Bach-Gesellschaft Ausgabe. The volume in question was edited by Thomaskantor Wilhelm Rust. In the Neue Bach-Ausgabe it was published in 1957, edited by Alfred Dürr, with a critical report the same year.{{sfn|Bach Digital|2024}}

Recordings

A list of recordings is provided on the Bach Cantatas Website.{{sfn|Oron|2024}}{{sfn|Muziekweb|2024}} Ensembles playing period instruments in historically informed performances are shown with a green background.

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+ Recordings of Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ
scope="col" | Title

! scope="col" | Conductor / Choir / Orchestra

! scope="col" | Soloists

! scope="col" | Label

! scope="col" | Year

! scope="col" | Orch. type

{{Cantata discography row

| id = Gustav Leonhardt

| title = J. S. Bach: Das Kantatenwerk • Complete Cantatas • Les Cantates, Folge / Vol. 5

| conductor = {{sortname|Gustav|Leonhardt}}

| choir = {{ubl| Knabenchor Hannover | Collegium Vocale Gent }}

| orchestra = {{nowrap|Concentus Musicus Wien}}

| soloists = {{plainlist|

}}

| label = Teldec

| year = {{Start date|1979}}

| orchestra_type = Period

}}

{{Cantata discography row

| id = Rilling

| title = Die Bach Kantate Vol. 47

| conductor = {{sortname|Helmuth|Rilling}}

| choir = Gächinger Kantorei

| orchestra = {{ubl| Bach-Collegium Stuttgart | Württemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn }}

| soloists = {{plainlist|

}}

| label = Hänssler

| year = {{Start date|1984}}

| orchestra_type =

}}

{{Cantata discography row

| id = Koopman

| title = J. S. Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 20

| conductor = {{sortname|Ton|Koopman}}

| orchestra = Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir

| soloists = {{plainlist|

}}

| label = Antoine Marchand

| year = {{Start date|2000}}

| orchestra_type = Period

}}

{{Cantata discography row

| id = Leusink

| title = Bach Edition Vol. 14 – Cantatas Vol. 7

| conductor = {{sortname|Pieter Jan|Leusink}}

| choir = Holland Boys Choir

| orchestra = Netherlands Bach Collegium

| soloists = {{plainlist|

}}

| label = Brilliant Classics

| year = {{Start date|2000}}

| orchestra_type = Period

}}

{{Cantata discography row

| id = Gardiner

| title = Bach Cantatas Vol. 14: New York{{sfn|Gardiner|2005}}{{sfn|Quinn|2006}}

| conductor = {{sortname|John Eliot|Gardiner}}

| choir = Monteverdi Choir

| orchestra = English Baroque Soloists

| soloists = {{plainlist|

}}

| label = Soli Deo Gloria

| year = {{Start date|2000}}

| orchestra_type = Period

}}

{{Cantata discography row

| id = Herreweghe

| title = J. S. Bach: Christmas Cantatas from Leipzig

| conductor = {{sortname|Philippe|Herreweghe}}

| orchestra = Collegium Vocale Gent

| soloists = {{plainlist|

}}

| label = Harmonia Mundi Franc

| year = {{Start date|2014}}

| orchestra_type = Period

}}

{{Cantata discography row

| id = Suzuki

| title = J. S. Bach: Cantatas Vol. 31 Cantatas from Leipzig 1724 – BWV 10, 93, 107, 178

| conductor = {{sortname|Masaaki|Suzuki}}

| orchestra = Bach Collegium Japan

| soloists = {{plainlist|

}}

| label = BIS

| year = {{Start date|2004}}

| orchestra_type = Period

}}

{{Cantata discography row

| id = Lutz

| title = J. S. Bach: Cantatas Vol. 31 Cantatas from Leipzig 1724 – BWV 10, 93, 107, 178

| conductor = {{sortname|Rudolf|Lutz}}

| orchestra = Choir & orchestra of the J. S. Bach-Stiftung

| soloists = {{plainlist|

}}

| label = J. S. Bach-Stiftung

| year = {{Start date|2016}}

| orchestra_type = Period

}}

References

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= Cited sources =

{{Wikisourcelang|de|Gelobet seystu Jesu Christ}}

  • {{cite web

| url = http://www.bach-digital.de/receive/BachDigitalWork_work_00000115?lang=en

| title = Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ BWV 91; BC A 9b

| website = Bach Digital

| date = 2024

| ref = {{sfnref|Bach Digital|2024}}

| access-date = 13 August 2024

}}

  • {{cite web

| url = https://www.bach-digital.de/receive/BachDigitalWork_work_00011388?lang=en

| title = Fallt mit Danken, fallt mit Loben / (Christmas oratorio, part 4) BWV 248 IV; BC D 7 I

| website = Bach Digital

| access-date = 17 December 2024

| ref = {{sfnref|Bach Digital 248|2024}}

}}

  • {{cite web

| url = https://www.bach-digital.de/receive/BachDigitalWork_work_00011385?lang=en

| title = Jauchzet, frohlocket! Auf, preiset die Tage / (Christmas oratorio, part 1) BWV 248 I; BC D 7 I

| website = Bach Digital

| access-date = 11 September 2024

| ref = {{sfnref|Bach Digital 248 I|2024}}

}}

  • {{cite web

| url = https://www.bach-digital.de/receive/BachDigitalWork_Work_00011387?lang=en

| title = Herrscher des Himmels, erhöre das Lallen / (Christmas oratorio, part 3) BWV 248.2 III; BWV 248 III; BC D 7 III

| website = Bach Digital

| access-date = 11 September 2024

| ref = {{sfnref|Bach Digital 248 III|2024}}

}}

  • {{cite web

| last = Dahn

| first = Luke

| url = http://www.bach-chorales.com/BWV0091_6.htm

| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240621200225/http://www.bach-chorales.com/BWV0091_6.htm

| archive-date=2024-06-21

| title = BWV 91.6

| website = bach-chorales.com

| date = 2024

| access-date = 13 August 2024

}}

  • {{cite web

| last = Dellal

| first = Pamela

| author-link = Pamela Dellal

| url = https://www.emmanuelmusic.org/bach-translations/bwv-91

| title = BWV 91 – "Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ"

|website= Emmanuel Music

| date = 2024

| access-date = 16 August 2024

}}

  • {{cite book

| last = Dürr

| first = Alfred

| author-link = Alfred Dürr

| title = Die Kantaten von Johann Sebastian Bach

| date = 1981

| publisher = Deutscher Taschenbuchverlag

| isbn = 3-423-04080-7

| volume = 1

| edition = 4th

| pages = [https://archive.org/details/diekantatenvonjo0002durr/page/109 109–111]

| language = de

| url = https://archive.org/details/diekantatenvonjo0002durr

| url-access = registration

}}

  • {{cite book

| last1 = Dürr

| first1 = Alfred

| author1-link = Alfred Dürr

| last2 = Jones

| first2 = Richard D. P.

| author2-link = Richard D. P. Jones

| chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=m9JuwslMcq4C&pg=PA94

| chapter = Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ, BWV 91

| title = The Cantatas of J. S. Bach: With Their Librettos in German-English Parallel Text

| location = Oxford

| publisher = Oxford University Press

| date = 2006

| pages = 94–97

| isbn = 978-0-19-969628-4

}}

  • {{Cite AV media notes

| last = Gardiner

| first = John Eliot

| author-link = John Eliot Gardiner

| url = https://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp?dc=D_SDG113

| title = Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) / Cantatas Nos 40, 91, 110 & 121

| publisher = Soli Deo Gloria |via=Hyperion Records

| date = 2005

| access-date = 31 December 2018

}}

  • {{cite web

| last = Mincham

| first = Julian

| url = https://www.jsbachcantatas.com/documents/chapter-28-bwv-91/

| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171015201822/http://www.jsbachcantatas.com/documents/chapter-28-bwv-91/

| url-status = dead

| archive-date = 15 October 2017

| title = Chapter 28 BWV 91 Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ / We praise you, Jesus Christ.

| website = The Cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach

| date = 2010

| access-date = 24 August 2022

}}

  • {{cite web

| last = Oron

| first = Aryeh

| url = http://www.bach-cantatas.com/BWV91.htm

| title = Cantata BWV 91 Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ

| website = Bach Cantatas

| date = 2024

| access-date = 18 August 2024

}}

  • {{cite web

| last = Quinn

| first = John

| url = http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2006/Mar06/Bach_Pilgrimage2_SDG113SDG107.htm

| title = Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) / The Bach Cantata Pilgrimage - Volume 14 / Cantatas for Christmas Day and the Second Day of Christmas

| date = March 2006

| website = MusicWeb International

| access-date = 11 September 2024

}}

  • {{Cite book

| last = Schulze

| first = Hans-Joachim

| author-link = Hans-Joachim Schulze

| url = https://www.carusmedia.com/images-intern/medien//30/3109100/3109100x.pdf

| chapter = Foreword

| title = Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ / All praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ / BWV 91

| publisher = Carus-Verlag

| date = 2006

| page = 4

| access-date = 19 August 2024

}}

  • {{cite web

| url = https://www.muziekweb.nl/en/Link/U00000622499/CLASSICAL/Cantata-for-soloists-4-choir-and-orchestra-BWV-91-%22Gelobet-seist-du-Jesu-Christ%22

| title = Cantata for soloists [4], choir and orchestra BWV.101, "Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ, BWV"

| website = Muziekweb

| date = 2024

| access-date = 19 August 2024

| ref = {{sfnref|Muziekweb|2024}}

}}

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  • [http://www.uvm.edu/~classics/faculty/bach/BWV91.html BWV 91 Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ] English translation, University of Vermont
  • [http://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~wfb/cantatas/91.html BWV 91 Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ] text, scoring, University of Alberta
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