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| movements = 11 in two parts (7, 4) | text_poet = anonymous | chorale = | vocal = | instrumental = }} ''ドイツ語:O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort'' (O eternity, you word of thunder),〔 BWV 20, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed it in Leipzig for the first Sunday after Trinity Sunday and first performed it on 11 June 1724. It is the first chorale cantata from his second annual cycle, of chorale cantatas, based on the hymn (1642) by Johann Rist on a melody by Johann Schop. == History and words == Bach composed the cantata for the First Sunday after Trinity.〔 The Sunday marks the beginning of the second half of the liturgical year, "in which core issues of faith and doctrine are explored".〔 The year before, Bach had taken office as ドイツ語:Thomaskantor in Leipzig.〔 He was responsible for the education of the Thomanerchor, performances in the regular services in the Thomaskirche, the Nikolaikirche and others.〔 He had started the project of composing one cantata for each Sunday and holiday of the liturgical year,〔〔 termed by Christoph Wolff "an artistic undertaking on the largest scale".〔 In 1724 he started a project on the first Sunday after Trinity to exclusively compose chorale cantatas, based on the main Lutheran hymn for the respective occasion, beginning with this cantata.〔 Leipzig had a tradition of concentrating on the hymns. In 1690, the minister of the Thomaskirche, Johann Benedikt Carpzov, had announced that he would preach also on songs and that Johann Schelle, then the director of music, would play the song before the sermon.〔 Bach composed some forty chorale cantatas in his second cycle.〔 The prescribed readings for the Sunday were from the First Epistle of John, "God is Love" (), and from the Gospel of Luke, the parable of the Rich man and Lazarus (). The text is based on Johann Rist's hymn in 16 stanzas "ドイツ語:O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort", using 12 of the stanzas.〔 The hymn, considering death and eternity, is well suited to match the parable of the rich man who has to face death and hell.〔 It is subtitled "ドイツ語:Ernstliche Betrachtung der unendlichen Ewigkeit" (A Serious Consideration of Endless Eternity).〔 The text of three stanzas is kept unchanged, 1, 8 and 12, used for movements 1, 7 and 11.〔 An unknown author rephrased the other stanzas of the chorale to recitatives and arias, generally alternating and using one stanza for one cantata movement. The poet combined two stanzas, 4 and 5, to form movement 4. He used the lines "ドイツ語:Vielleicht ist dies der letzte Tag, kein Mensch weiß, wenn er sterben mag" (Perhaps this is your last day, no one knows when he might die)〔 from stanza 9 in movement 9 which is otherwise based on stanza 10. In movement 10 he inserted a hint at the Gospel. In general, he stays close to the text, which is characteristic for the early cantatas in Bach's second annual cycle.〔 The poet was possibly Andreas Stübel, who died in 1725, a possible explanation why Bach did not complete the full cycle, but ended on Palm Sunday.〔 The chorale theme was composed by Johann Schop for the hymn "ドイツ語:Wach auf, mein Geist, erhebe dich", which appeared in his collection ''ドイツ語:Himlische Lieder'' (Lüneburg, 1642). It is featured in all three movements using Rist's text.〔 Bach first performed the cantata on 11 June 1724.〔 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「O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort, BWV 20」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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