![]() Striving still to truth unknown, Soaring, dying round Thy throne. Word of God, our flesh that fashioned, With the fire of life impassioned, Holy wisdom, love most bright Drawn by Thee, our souls aspiring It is not a translation of the stanzas used within Bach's original version, but is inspired by the stanzas of the same hymn composed in 1642 by Johann Schop that Bach had drawn upon: Jesu, meiner Seelen Wonne, the lyrics of which were written in 1661 by Martin Jahn (c. ![]() It was written by the poet laureate Robert Bridges. ![]() The following is the most commonly heard English version of the piece. According to The New Oxford Companion to Music, the best-known transcription for piano is by Dame Myra Hess. The music's wide popularity has led to numerous arrangements and transcriptions, such as for the classical guitar. Instrumental arrangementsīach scored the chorale movements (6 and 10) from Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben for choir, trumpet, violin, optionally oboe, viola, and basso continuo. Rather, it was one segment of an extended, approximately 20-minute treatment of a traditional Church hymn, as is typical of cantatas of the Baroque period. The frequent use of arrangements of the piece in modern weddings is in no way related to its scope or Bach's intent for it. Bach wrote a total of 200 cantatas during his time in Leipzig, largely to meet the Leipzig Churches' demand for about 58 different cantatas each year.Ĭontrary to the common assumption, the violinist and composer Johann Schop, not Bach, composed the movement's underlying chorale melody, Werde munter, mein Gemüthe Bach's contribution was to harmonize and orchestrate it. Īlthough it is the 32nd surviving cantata that Bach composed, it was assigned the number BWV 147 in the complete catalogue of his works. For Leipzig, Bach added three recitatives and the celebrated chorale movement which concludes each of the two parts. This earlier version (BWV 147a) lacked the recitatives, but included the opening chorus and the four arias incorporated into the later version. ![]() Much of the music of Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben comes from Bach's Weimar period. ![]()
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