Bleib bei uns, denn es will Abend werden, BWV 6 (Score) Johann Sebastian Bach They are testimony to Rameau’s

They are testimony to Rameau’s great contrapuntal mastery and contain beautiful lyrical passages

Bach never gave this work a definitive final form

the work has nevertheless faced a complex source situation

Despite having borrowed some chorales and turbae from his father

the first of two for horns

Bleib bei uns, denn es will Abend werden, BWV 6 (Score) Johann Sebastian Bach They are testimony to Rameau’sBach 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