For the righteous light is sown (Dem Gerechten muss das Licht)
Wedding cantata
by Johann Sebastian Bach
4-Part - Sheet Music

SATB vocal soli, SATB choir, 2 flutes, 2 oboes/oboe d'amore, 2 horns, 3 trumpets, timpani, 2 violins, viola, basso continuo

SKU: CA.3119511

Wedding cantata. Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. Edited by Uwe Wolf. Stuttgart Urtext Edition: Bach vocal. Dem Gerechten Muss Das Licht Immer Wieder. Sacred vocal music, Cantatas, Wedding. Single Part, Violin 1. BWV 195. 8 pages. Duration 16 minutes. Carus Verlag #CV 31.195/11. Published by Carus Verlag (CA.3119511).

ISBN 9790007210380. Text language: German/English.

The Hochzeitskantate (Wedding Cantata) BWV 195 was performed by Bach from around 1730 at various wedding celebrations in different forms, and was evidently also lent out for performances further afield. The only surviving version of the work dates from the last years of Bach's life. The opulently-scored first part begins and ends with grand choral movements, and Bach scored both parts for soloists and for chorus. At the centre of the cantata is an exceptionally sensitive bass aria, probably one of Bach's most modern vocal compositions of all. A chorale movement ("Nun danket all and bringet Ehr"/ "Now thank we all and offer praise") with obbligato horns concludes the cantata as the second part "after the consummation". Score and part available separately - see item CA.3119500.