Bach: Wo gehest du hin?, BWV 166
Cantata for the 4th Sunday after Easter
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- 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
- Work Language: German
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- 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.