Treach'rous world, I do not trust you
Cantata for the 23rd Sunday after Trinity BWV 52, 1726
It only became apparent a few years ago that the text of the soprano cantata "Falsche Welt, dir trau ich nicht" came from the collection Gott-geheiligten Sabbaths-Zehnden by the Leipzig theology student and Bach pupil Christoph Birkmann, printed in 1728 in Nuremberg. Birkmann was probably therefore the author of the text. The cantata was written for the 23rd Sunday after Trinity, which fell on 24 November 1726 in the year of its first performance. As in other cantatas in the first annual cycle, Bach chose an instrumental sinfonia as the opening movement – here the first movement of the 1st Brandenburg Concerto. The soprano soloist has two recitatives and two arias, in which the falsehood of the world is juxtaposed with trust in God. The cantata text is rounded off with the first verse of the chorale “In dich hab ich gehoffet”, scored for four-part chorus, as is usual with Bach. With the use of two horns and three oboes added to the string ensemble, the cantata has colorful and varied orchestration.
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text (without music) for download, html file, Singing text, english translationhtml file, Singing text, english translation (Sample)1 Sinfonia 2 RecitativoTreach’ous world,
3 Aria
I do not trust you!
Here must I dwell besieged by scorpions
and by deceitful snakes surrounded.
Your smiling face which now so friendly seems,
in secret plots my dire corruption;
at Joab’s kiss, so must a righteous Abner suffer.
Integrity is by the world now shunned,
duplicity drives it away,
and thus hypocrisy now in its place does rule.
The best of friends prove to be false.
O what a wretched time!After all, if am by all cast out.
4 Recitativo
If false friends become my foe,
yet, if God is still my friend,
he will deal justly at the end....
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text (without music) for download, html file, Singing text, originalhtml file, Singing text, original (Sample)1 Sinfonia 2 Recitativo
Falsche Welt, dir trau ich nicht!
3 Aria
Hier muss ich unter Skorpionen
und unter falschen Schlangen wohnen.
Dein Angesicht das noch so freundlich ist,
sinnt auf ein heimliches Verderben:
Wenn Joab küsst,
so muss ein frommer Abner sterben.
Die Redlichkeit ist aus der Welt verbannt,
die Falschheit hat sie fortgetrieben,
nun ist die Heuchelei an ihrer Stelle blieben.
Der beste Freund ist ungetreu, o jämmerlicher Stand!Immerhin, wenn ich gleich verstoßen bin:
4 Recitativo
Ist die falsche Welt mein Feind,
oh, so bleibt doch Gott mein Freund,
der es redlich mit mir meint.Gott ist getreu!
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Composer
Johann Sebastian Bach
| 1685-1750Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the most important composers of Western music history. He came from a widely ramified musical dynasty, which produced numerous musicians and organists in the Thuringian-Saxon area.
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Editor
Ulrich Leisinger
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Songwriter / Librettist
Christoph Birkmann
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