Bleib bei uns, denn es will Abend werden, BWV 6 (Score) Johann Sebastian Bach unser Heiland - Frühfassung BWV

unser Heiland - Frühfassung BWV 665a

The archaic character of the movement is emphasized by the addition of a trombone quartet

During his lifetime

Bach never gave this work a definitive final form

The range of compositional colors stretches from Alpine-influenced writing for male voice choir (Hostias)

Bleib bei uns, denn es will Abend werden, BWV 6 (Score) Johann Sebastian Bach unser Heiland - Frühfassung BWVBach composed the cantata Stay with us, for it draws on toward evening BWV 6 for Easter Monday 1725. In fact, it is certain that a chorale cantata had been planned for that feast day, but for some unknown reason, the annual cycle of chorale cantatas broke off just before Easter 1725. For BWV 6, Bach fell back on a text by an author whose texts he had already set numerous times in his first Leipzig annual cycle of cantatas (which are conspicuous by