Johann Sebastian Bach
I stand with my open grave before me BWV 156
Cantata for the 3rd Sunday after Epiphany
Johann Sebastian Bach
I stand with my open grave before me BWV 156
Cantata for the 3rd Sunday after Epiphany
- Instrumentation Soloists (SATB), Mixed Choir (SATB), Oboe, 2 Violins, Viola and Continuo
- Composer Johann Sebastian Bach
- Editor Uwe Wolf
- Edition Study Score (Urtext)
- Publisher Carus-Verlag
- Order no. CV31156-07
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Description:
Ich steh mit einem Fuß im Grabe BWV 156 is one of Johann Sebastian Bach's few surviving cantatas on texts from what is known as the Picander period. As in several other cantatas on texts by this poet, Bach precedes it with a sinfonia. This probably comes from an older, but not surviving concerto and is later reused as the slow movement of the famous Harpsichord Concerto in F minor BWV 1056. In the first aria, the poet combines his text with a well-known chorale, a technique found in Bach's cantatas from the pre-Leipzig period in particular. The cantata comprises six short movements; the choir is only used in the final chorale.