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| occasion = ドイツ語:Ratswechsel | performed = | movements = 8 | text_poet = anonymous | bible = | chorale="ドイツ語:Nun lob, mein Seel, den Herren" by Johann Gramann | vocal = choir and solo | instrumental = }} ''ドイツ語:Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir'' (We thank you, God, we thank you), , is a sacred cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed it in Leipzig in 1731 for ドイツ語:Ratswechsel, the annual inauguration of a new town council, and first performed it on 27 August of that year. The cantata was part of a festive service in the ドイツ語:Nikolaikirche. The cantata text by an unknown author includes in movement 2 the beginning of Psalm 75, and as the closing chorale the fifth stanza of Johann Gramann's "ドイツ語:Nun lob, mein Seel, den Herren". Bach scored the work in eight movements for four vocal parts and a festive Baroque orchestra of three trumpets, timpani, two oboes, strings, an obbligato organ and basso continuo. The organ dominates the first movement ''Sinfonia'' which Bach derived from a ''Partita'' for violin. The full orchestra accompanies the first choral movement and plays with the voices in the closing chorale, while a sequence of three arias alternating with two recitatives is scored intimately. Bach used the music from the choral movement for both the ''ラテン語:Gratias agimus tibi'' and ''ラテン語:Dona nobis pacem'' of his Mass in B minor. == History and words == Bach composed the cantata in 1731 for ドイツ語:Ratswechsel, the inauguration of the new town council, which was celebrated annually in a festive service in the ドイツ語:Nikolaikirche on the Monday following the feast day of St. Bartholomew . It was not a democratic election, but a "ceremonial transfer of office" of council members who were appointed. The service was not part of the liturgical year with cantata texts related to prescribed biblical epistle and gospel readings. For the same occasion, Bach had already written the cantata ドイツ語:''Preise, Jerusalem, den Herrn'', BWV 119, in his first year in Leipzig, 1723. For the Ratswechsel service, he could count on the entire council (his employer) listening, probably also civil servants and representatives of the Elector's administration for the region. The musicologist Klaus Hofmann notes: "It was an opportunity for Bach to show how sacred music was flourishing under his direction and to present himself as a composer." The cantata text of ''Wir danken dir, Gott'' by an unknown author includes in movement 2 the first verse of Psalm 75 () and as the closing chorale the fifth stanza of Johann Gramann's hymn of praise "ドイツ語:Nun lob, mein Seel, den Herren" (1540). Bach first performed the cantata on 27 August 1731. In 1733, he adapted the music of the first choral movement with only minor changes for the ''ラテン語:Gratias agimus tibi'' of his Missa (Kyrie and Gloria) for the Dresden court, on a text expressing the same idea in Latin. According to Hofmann, the movement is based on an earlier lost composition. Bach performed the cantata for Ratswahl at least two more times, on 31 August 1739 and on 24 August 1749. He expanded the Missa of 1733 to his Mass in B minor and concluded his work by repeating the music as the ''ラテン語:Dona nobis pacem''. 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「Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir, BWV 29」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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