Du Hirte Israel, höre, BWV 104
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Du Hirte Israel, höre BWV 104 |
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| Church cantata by J. S. Bach | |
The Good Shepherd, topic of the cantata, by Jean-Baptiste de Champaigne
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| Occasion | Second Sunday after Easter |
| Performed | 23 April 1724: Leipzig |
| Movements | 6 |
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| Chorale | by Cornelius Becker |
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Du Hirte Israel, höre (You Shepherd of Israel, hear),BWV 104, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed it for the second Sunday after Easter in Leipzig and first performed it on 23 April 1724.
Bach composed the cantata in his first annual cycle in Leipzig for the second Sunday after Easter, called Misericordias Domini The prescribed readings for that Sunday were from the First Epistle of Peter, Christ as a model (), and from the Gospel of John, the Good Shepherd (). The unknown poet begins with and ends with Cornelius Becker's hymn "Der Herr ist mein getreuer Hirt", a paraphrase of Psalm 23 (1598). The poet refers in his work to more Bible context, such as and for the first recitative, reflecting that God as the Good Shepherd will take care. In the second recitative, he concludes: "Only gather, o good Shepherd, us poor and erring ones; ah, let our journey soon reach an end and lead us into your sheepfold!" The last aria hopes "for faith's reward after a gentle sleep of death" (, des Glaubens Lohn nach einem sanften Todesschlafe), combining the Baroque ideas of pastoral peace and longing for death.
Bach first performed the cantata on 23 April 1724.
The cantata in six movements is scored for tenor and bass soloists, a four-part choir, two oboes d'amore, taille (tenor oboe), two violins, viola and basso continuo.
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