Desired ray of light BWV 184, BWV3 184.2
Cantata for the 3rd day of Pentecost
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Desired ray of light BWV 184, BWV3 184.2
Cantata for the 3rd day of Pentecost
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Desired ray of light BWV 184, BWV3 184.2

Cantata for the 3rd day of Pentecost

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Description:

  • Language: de/en
  • Pages: 44
  • Release: 11.02.2025
  • Term: 25:00
  • Key: G major
  • Opus: BWV184
  • Genre: Sacred & Church Music, Pentecost Music
  • Accompaniment: Piano
  • ISMN: 9790007349240
The Whitsun cantata "Erwünschtes Freudenlicht" BWV 184 is based on a Köthen composition, presumably a congratulatory cantata, whose instrumental parts (the only surviving ones) Bach continued to use in the Leipzig Whitsun cantata. Only the chorale movement was apparently newly composed for it. Despite the narrow creative scope left to the librettist by the already completed composition, he succeeded in creating a coherent Pentecost text. The beginning of the cantata is surprising with a long tenor accompagnato with two flutes, followed by a pastoral duet. The position of the chorale before the final chorus rather than at the end of the work is unusual. Bach was evidently aware of the fitting final effect of this lively movement and wanted to preserve it in the sacred form. The sacred version was first performed on the third day of Pentecost in 1724, after a parody of another Köthen cantata (BWV 173) had probably already been performed on the second day of Pentecost.