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 the
cantata 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 cans...(+)
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 the
cantata 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.
This, the movement 4 "Herr, so du willt" (Lord, as You
will) begins without a ritornello. The unusual three
stanzas, all beginning with the words "Herr, so du
willt", are delivered as free variations and closed by
a coda. Similar to movement 1, a motif on "Herr, so du
willt" opens and is repeated throughout the movement,
finally in the coda. This motif is the beginning of the
famous aria Bist du bei mir from the Notebook for Anna
Magdalena Bach, long attributed to Bach, but written by
Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel.
Source: Wikipedia
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herr,_wie_du_willt,_so_sc
hicks_mit_mir,_BWV_73).
Although originally scored for bass soloist, two
violins, viola, and basso continuo, I created this
arrangement for Woodwind Quintet (Flute, Oboe, Bb
Clarinet, French Horn & Bassoon).
PARTITION