Description

• Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
• Editor: Alfred Dürr
• Instrumentation (this edition): Piano Reduction, Alto, Bass, Tenor
• Originally for: SATB Choir, Orchestra
• Work: Wo gehest du hin? (Cantata for the 4th Sunday after Easter), BWV 166
• Binding:
• Work Language: German
• ISMN: 9790006491407
• Size: 7.5 x 10.6 inches
• Pages: 18
• Urtext / Critical Edition

Description

The cantata Wo gehest du hin?, which dates from the first year of Bach’s appointment in Leipzig and was given for the first time on 7 May 1724, takes as its starting point a phrase from the gospel for the fourth Sunday after Easter (St. John xvi, 5-15). Bach’s setting of this text is simple and concise. The scoring is light – apart from strings and continuo it calls only for an oboist and three vocal soloists and a chorus in the closing chorale.