Fallt mit Danken, fallt mit Loben, BWV 248 IV
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Fallt mit Danken, fallt mit Loben (Fall with thanks, fall with praise),[1] BWV 248IV (also written as BWV 248 IV),[2] is a Christmas cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach, composed in 1734 as Part IV of his six-part Christmas Oratorio. Each part of the oratorio is a cantata, written for performance on one of the feast days of the Christmas period. Fallt mit Danken, fallt mit Loben is meant for the New Year's Day feast of the circumcision and naming of Jesus. Based on a libretto by an unknown author, it tells the naming of Jesus from the Nativity of Jesus, according to the Gospel of Luke.
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BWV 248 IV | |
Christmas cantata by J. S. Bach | |
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Occasion | New Year's Day |
Bible text | Luke 2:21 |
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Performed | 1 January 1735 (1735-01-01): Leipzig |
Movements | 9 |
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Bach structured the cantata in seven movements, and scored it for three vocal soloists, a four-part choir, and a festive Baroque orchestra with horns, oboes and strings. The opening chorus and the two arias are based on his earlier secular cantata Laßt uns sorgen, laßt uns wachen, BWV 213, composed for the 11th birthday of the crown prince of Saxony on 5 September 1733.
The tenor soloist, in the role of the Evangelist,[upper-alpha 1] narrates the Biblical verse in recitative style. The choir sings the elaborate opening movement and the closing chorale, a four-part setting of a stanza from Johann Rist's "Hilf, Herr Jesu, laß gelingen". Four solo movements reflect the name of Jesus, and life for him. Bach led the first performances at the two main churches of Leipzig in a morning service and a vespers service on 1 January 1735.