“O Jesu Christ, my Life and Light” BWV 118 1st and 2nd Version – Urtext by Johann Sebastian Bach Choir - Sheet Music

Chorus (with soloists) and orchestra (1. version: 0.0.0.0. – 2litui.0.corn.3.0 – db / 2. version: 0.2(ad lib.).ob.da cac(cor ang.)0.1 – 2litui. 0.0.0 – str – db)

SKU: BR.CHB-4618

1st and 2nd Version – Urtext. Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. Edited by Wolfram Enßlin. Choir; stapled. Chor-Bibliothek (Choral Library). Motet; Baroque. Choral score. 4 pages. Duration 8´. Breitkopf and Haertel #ChB 4618. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.CHB-4618).

ISBN 9790004407073. 7.5 x 10.5 inches. German / English.

The new edition of BWV 118 presents the work in the two different instrumental settings that are authenticated through the autograph scores: the earlier version with solely brass instruments, and the later one with mixed instruments. Both versions are printed consecutively. Of particular interest for an authentic performance are two Litui, which are called for in both versions. To this day it has been impossible to determine what instruments are meant here: high horns in B flat? Or trumpets? The work has more unanswered questions for us for example, the occasion for which the first version was written in ca. 1736/37, and the reason why the work was newly orchestrated after 1740.