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| movements = 6 | text_poet = Salomon Franck | chorale = by | vocal = | instrumental = }} ''ドイツ語:Komm, du süße Todesstunde'' (Come, o sweet hour of death),〔 , is a church cantata composed by Johann Sebastian Bach in Weimar for the 16th Sunday after Trinity. The text was provided by court poet Salomon Franck, derived from the prescribed gospel reading about the Young man from Nain reflections on longing for death, seen as a transition to a life united with Jesus. The words includes as a closing chorale the fourth stanza of the hymn "ドイツ語:Herzlich tut mich verlangen" by Christoph Knoll. The text was published in 1715, but due to a period of public mourning Bach possibly led the first performance only a year later on 27 September 1716, in the ''ドイツ語:Schlosskirche'', the court chapel in the ducal ''Schloss''. Bach structured the work in six movements, opening with a alternating arias and recitatives leadings to a chorus and a concluding chorale. The chorale tune of "ドイツ語:O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden" appears in the first movement, played by the organ, and musical motifs of the arias are derived from it, providing an overall, formal unity to the composition. Bach revived the cantata with minor changes in Leipzig, later assigning it to the feast of the Purification. == History and text == Bach established his reputation as an outstanding organist while in his teens. He moved to Weimar in 1708 to take up position as court organist to the co-reigning dukes Wilhelm Ernst and Ernst August of Saxe-Weimar. He had already begun to compose cantatas at his previous posts at Arnstadt and Mühlhausen, and his reasons for moving included disappointment with the standard of singing at the churches where he had worked. He was appointed concertmaster of the Weimar court capelle on 2 March 1714. As concertmaster, he assumed principal responsibility for composing new works. Specifically he was tasked with providing cantatas for the ''Schlosskirche'' (palace church) on a monthly schedule, and a complete annual cycle within four years.〔 Bach wrote BWV 161 for the 16th Sunday after Trinity. He would have led the first performance, but there is some debate as to the date this took place. The cantata appears to belong to a group of cantatas written in 1715. (The text for this and other cantatas of 1715 was written by the court poet Salomon Franck, and published in ''ドイツ語:Evangelisches Andachts-Opffer'' in 1715). Alfred Dürr, an authority on the dating of Bach's vocal works, concluded that it was first performed on 6 October 1715. However, as this date fell in a period of public mourning in Weimar,〔 the first performance is dated as the same occasion the following year (27 September 1716) by the publisher Carus-Verlag〔 and others such as the Bach scholar Christoph Wolff. The prescribed readings for the Sunday were from the Epistle to the Ephesians, dedicated to the strengthening of faith in the congregation of Ephesus (), and from the Gospel of Luke, the raising from the dead of the Young man from Nain ().〔 In Bach's time the story pointed at the resurrection of the dead, expressed in words of desire to die soon.〔 The closing chorale is from the fourth stanza of the hymn "ドイツ語:Herzlich tut mich verlangen" (1611) by .〔 Bach revived the work during his years in Leipzig in a version dated some time between 1737 and 1746.〔 He even performed it for a different liturgical occasion, the feast of the Purification of Mary on 2 February.〔〔〔 The prescribed readings for the Purification included Simeon's canticle ''Nunc dimittis'' (), which with its line "now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace" has a similar message to the libretto. 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「Komm, du süße Todesstunde, BWV 161」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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