| 作曲者 | Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)・ヨハン・セバスティアン・バッハ |
| タイトル | Die Himmel erzählen die Ehre Gottes, BWV 76 [organ] |
| サブタイトル | Cantata for the 2nd Sunday afer Trinity / Reformation Day |
| 出版社 | Carus・カールス |
| 楽器編成（詳細） | Soli SATB,Coro SATB,2 Ob (Ob I auch Obda),Tr,Violin solo,2 Violins,Viola,Viola da gamba,Basso continuo |
| 品番 | CV31.076/49 |
| 校訂者 | Ulrich Leisinger |
| 編曲者 | Paul Horn |
| 難易度 | 中級 |
| 言語 | ドイツ語・英語 |
| 形状 | 32 ページ・23 x 32 cm・115 g・表紙カバー無し |
| 演奏時間 | 35分 |
| 作曲年 | 1723年 |
| 出版年 | 2017年 |
| 出版番号 | CV 31.076/49 |
The cantata “Die Himmel erzählen die Ehre Gottes” (The heavens are telling of God in glory) BWV 76 by Johann Sebastian Bach was written for the 2nd Sunday after Trinity, which fell on 6 June 1723 in the year it was first performed. This ambitious two-part work was the second cantata which Bach wrote after taking up the position of Kantor of St. Thomas’s in Leipzig. Bach’s aim was evidently to demonstrate a particularly wide range of musical forms in both the arias and the recitatives in this cantata. The opening chorus is based on verses 2 and 4 of Psalm 19, with verse 4 structured as a choral fugue. Both parts of the cantata end with a chorale movement with different verses from the Lutheran hymn “Es woll uns Gott genädig sein”. The text refers loosely to the epistle reading from the 1st letter of St John, but deals more with general thoughts about the temptations of the Christian which can be overcome through love. Bach also performed the first part of the cantata later with minor revisions, but evidently no alterations to the text, on Reformation Day in Leipzig.