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| vocal = choir and solo | instrumental = }} ''ドイツ語:Ach wie flüchtig, ach wie nichtig'' (Ah, how fleeting, ah how insignificant),〔 , is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed the chorale cantata in Leipzig for the 24th Sunday after Trinity and first performed it on 19 November 1724. The cantata is based upon Michael Franck's hymn "ドイツ語:Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele", with a melody by Johann Crüger (1652). It is the only time that Bach used this hymn. Its aspect of the transience of human life is the only connection to the prescribed gospel reading. The first and last stanza are used unchanged in both text and tune: the former is treated as a chorale fantasia, the latter as a four-part closing chorale. An unknown librettist paraphrased the inner stanzas as arias and recitatives. Bach scored the cantata for four vocal soloists, a four-part choir, and a Baroque instrumental ensemble of horn, flute, three oboes, strings and continuo. == History and words == Bach wrote the cantata in 1724 in his second year in Leipzig for the 24th Sunday after Trinity.〔 That year, Bach composed a cycle of chorale cantatas, begun on the first Sunday after Trinity of 1724.〔 The prescribed readings for the Sunday were from the Epistle to the Colossians, a prayer for the Colossians (), and from the Gospel of Matthew, the story of the Raising of Jairus' daughter (). The cantata is based on the hymn in 13 stanzas by Michael Franck (1652)〔 on a melody by Johann Crüger (1661),〔 "a meditation on the transience of human life and of all earthly goods".〔 This aspect is the only connection to the gospel. An unknown poet kept the first and the last stanza as movements 1 and 6 of the cantata. He derived the inner movements as a sequence of alternating arias and recitatives from the inner stanzas.〔 John Eliot Gardiner points out that "several of Bach's late Trinity season cantatas" concentrate on "the brevity of human life and the futility of earthly hopes".〔 Bach first performed the cantata on 19 November 1724.〔 It is the only time that he used this hymn.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ach wie flüchtig, ach wie nichtig, BWV 26」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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