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| movements = 7 | text_poet = anonymous | chorale = | vocal = | instrumental = }} ''ドイツ語:Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme'' (Awake, calls the voice to us),〔 , also known as ''Sleepers Wake'', is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach, regarded as one of his most mature and popular sacred cantatas. He composed the chorale cantata in Leipzig for the 27th Sunday after Trinity and first performed it on 25 November 1731. Bach composed this cantata to complete his second annual cycle of cantatas of 1724/25, a cycle planned to be of chorale cantatas. The cantata is based on the hymn in three stanzas "ドイツ語:Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme" (1599) by Philipp Nicolai, which covers the prescribed reading for the Sunday, the parable of the Ten Virgins. The text and tune of the hymn appears unchanged in movements 1, 4 and 7, while an unknown author supplied poetry for movements 2 and 3, 5 and 6, both a sequence of recitative and duet. The librettist refers to the love poetry of the Song of Songs. Bach structured the cantata in seven movements, setting the first stanza as a chorale fantasia, the second (movement 4) in the style of a chorale prelude, and the third as a four-part chorale. He set the new texts as dramatic recitatives and love-duets, similar to contemporary opera. Bach scored the work for three vocal soloists (soprano, tenor, bass), a four-part choir and a Baroque instrumental ensemble of horn (to enforce the soprano), two oboes, taille, violino piccolo, strings and basso continuo including bassoon. Bach used movement 4 of the cantata as the basis for the first of his Schübler Chorales, BWV 645. Bach scholar Alfred Dürr notes that the cantata is an expression of Christian mysticism in art, while William G. Whittaker calls it "a cantata without weakness, without a dull bar, technically, emotionally and spiritually of the highest order".〔 == History and text == Bach composed the cantata in Leipzig for the 27th Sunday after Trinity. This Sunday occurs only when Easter is extremely early.〔 The prescribed readings for the Sunday were from the First Epistle to the Thessalonians, be prepared for the day of the Lord (), and from the Gospel of Matthew, the parable of the Ten Virgins ().〔 Bach composed this cantata to complete his second annual cycle of cantatas of 1724/25, a cycle planned to be of chorale cantatas.〔〔 It is based on Philipp Nicolai's Lutheran hymn in three stanzas, "ドイツ語:Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme", which is based on the Gospel.〔 The text of the three stanzas appears unchanged in movements 1, 4 and 7, while an unknown author supplied poetry for movements 2 and 3, 5 and 6, both a sequence of recitative and duet.〔 He refers to the love poetry of the Song of Songs, showing Jesus as the bridegroom of the Soul.〔 According to the Bach scholar Christoph Wolff, the text was already available when Bach composed his cycle of chorale cantatas.〔 Bach performed the cantata only once, in Leipzig's main church Nikolaikirche on 25 November 1731.〔 According to Wolff, Bach performed it only this one time, although the 27th Sunday after Trinity occurred one more time during his tenure in Leipzig, in 1742.〔 He used movement 4 of the cantata as the base for the first of his Schübler Chorales, BWV 645.〔 In the modern three-year Revised Common Lectionary, the reading is scheduled for Proper 27, or the 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time, in the first year of the three-year cycle of lessons.〔''Lutheran Service Book'', xv.〕 Thus, the hymn and the cantata are commonly performed in churches on that Sunday. The text and its eschatological themes are also commonly associated with the early Sundays of the season of Advent, and so the cantata is commonly performed during that season. 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「Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 140」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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