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Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin

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Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin (With peace and joy I depart), BWV 125, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach, composed in Leipzig in 1725 for the Marian feast on 2 February known as Candlemas. The cantata is based on Martin Luther's 1524 hymn "Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin". The gospel for the feast day, the presentation of Jesus at the Temple, includes Simeon's canticle (painting pictured), which Luther paraphrased in his hymn. In the format of Bach's chorale cantata cycle, an unknown librettist retained the first and the last of Luther's four stanzas. He paraphrased the second stanza for an aria, but also included its original text line by line in his text for a recitative. Bach framed four solo movements by choral music, a chorale fantasia and a closing chorale. He scored the work for three vocal soloists, a four-part choir, horn, flauto traverso, oboes, strings and continuo. In the third movement, Bach set the hymn text differently from the librettist's commentary, but unified both elements by a continuous "motif of joy" in the accompaniment. The opening chorus has been compared to the opening movement of Bach's later St Matthew Passion.
 * Most recent similar article(s): no classical music article in a while
 * Main editors: Gerda Arendt
 * Promoted: March 2017
 * Reasons for nomination: the feast day for which it was composed
 * Support as nominator. Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:17, 9 December 2017 (UTC)