Herr, wie du willt, so schicks mit mir (Lord, as you
will, so let it be done with me), BWV 73, is a church
cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed it in
1724 in his first year in Leipzig for the Third Sunday
after Epiphany. The prescribed readings for the Sunday
were taken from the Epistle to the Romans, rules for
life (Romans 12:17–21), and from the Gospel of
Matthew, the healing of a leper (Matthew 8:1–13). The
unknown poet takes the words of the leper "Lord, if
thou wilt, thou canst...(+)
Herr, wie du willt, so schicks mit mir (Lord, as you
will, so let it be done with me), BWV 73, is a church
cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed it in
1724 in his first year in Leipzig for the Third Sunday
after Epiphany. The prescribed readings for the Sunday
were taken from the Epistle to the Romans, rules for
life (Romans 12:17–21), and from the Gospel of
Matthew, the healing of a leper (Matthew 8:1–13). The
unknown poet takes the words of the leper "Lord, if
thou wilt, thou canst make me clean" as a starting
point and recommends his attitude of trust for the
situation of facing death. In the first movement he
contrasts lines of Kaspar Bienemann's chorale "Herr,
wie du willst, so schick's mit mir" with three sections
of recitative. Movement 3 paraphrases Jeremiah 17:9.
The words of movement 4 are the leper's words from the
Gospel. The closing chorale is the final stanza of
Ludwig Helmbold's hymn "Von Gott will ich nicht
lassen".
Bach first performed the cantata on 23 January 1724,
and performed it again in a revised version on 21
January 1748 or 26 January 1749.
Source: Wikipedia
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herr,_wie_du_willt,_so_s
chicks_mit_mir,_BWV_73).
Although originally scored for tenor, oboe and basso
continuo, I created this arrangement for String Trio
(Violin, Viola & Cello).
PARTITION