Es wartet alles auf dich, BWV 187
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Johann Sebastian Bach composed the church cantata Es wartet alles auf dich (Everything waits for You),[1] BWV 187 in Leipzig for the seventh Sunday after Trinity and first performed it on 4 August 1726.
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BWV 187 | |
Church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach | |
Related | Missa in G minor, BWV 235 |
Occasion | Seventh Sunday after Trinity |
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Chorale | by Hans Vogel |
Performed | 4 August 1726 (1726-08-04): Leipzig |
Movements | 7 in two parts (3 + 4) |
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The text came from a 1704 libretto cycle published in Meiningen, following a symmetrical pattern in seven movements, which opens with a quotation from the Old Testament, is focused on a central quotation from the New Testament, and ends with a closing chorale. Symmetrical recitatives and arias form the other movements. Bach set the opening as a chorus based on two verses from Psalm 104, set the central movement as a bass solo on a quotation from the Sermon on the Mount, and concluded with two stanzas from Hans Vogel's hymn "Singen wir aus Herzensgrund" in a four-part setting. The arias and recitatives are performed by three vocal soloist. The cantata is scored for a Baroque instrumental ensemble of two oboes, strings and continuo.
Bach later used the music from four movements of this cantata for his Missa in G minor, BWV 235.