Trinitatis XXVI

Trinitatis XXVI or 26th Sunday after Trinitatis

Trinitatis XXVI is the 26th Sunday after Trinitas. One Leipzig cantata for this day: Wachet! betet! betet! wachet!, BWV 70, already announcing the coming of Advent, next Sunday. Indeed, this is the last Sunday of this liturgical year, next Sunday the new liturgical year begins with Advent I, the 4th Sunday before Christmas.

Bach wrote this cantata in Weimar as a cantata for Advent II, on a libretto by his favourite Salomon Franck. Because during Advent Leipzig held Tempus Clausum (which meant no music in mass) he could not perform the cantata on that day, so he repurposed it for Trinitatis XXVI, because the readings of that day had a similar theme.

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