Bleib bei uns, denn es will Abend werden, BWV 6 (Score) Johann Sebastian Bach The range of compositional colors

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

Despite having borrowed some chorales and turbae from his father

unser Heiland - Frühfassung BWV 665a

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

Bleib bei uns, denn es will Abend werden, BWV 6 (Score) Johann Sebastian Bach The range of compositional colorsBach 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