Trinitatis VI

Bach Cantata Day Information:
Trinitatis VI or 6th Sunday after Trinitatis

6th Sunday after Trinitatis. Liturgical period : Ordinary time II.

Occurrences: July 7 2024, July 27 2025, July 12 2026, July 4 2027, July 23 2028, July 8 2029, July 28 2030, July 20 2031, July 4 2032, July 24 2033, July 16 2034, July 1 2035, July 20 2036, July 12 2037.

Music for this day

Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust, BWV 170
(first performance 28 July 1726, Leipzig period)
Es ist das Heil uns kommen her, BWV 9
(first performance ? 1732–1735, Leipzig period)

Trinitatis VI is the 6th Sunday after Trinitatis. Two cantatas for this day, both from the Leizig period.

Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust, BWV 170, is a solo cantata, which means that one singer performs all arias and recitatives. This singer was clearly someone Bach respected, and there are indications that it might have been Carl Gotthelf Gerlach (1704-1761), who had been a Thomaner under Bach's predecessor (Johann Kuhnau, 1660-1722).

Es ist das Heil uns kommen her, BWV 9, is a later Leipzig cantata, written somewhere between 1732 and 1735, but intended to fill some of the gaps in his chorale cantata cycle of 1724-1725. The reason is simple: on Trinitatis VI in 1724 Bach was in Köthen with his wife Anna Magdalena, most likely for a performance for his former employer, Prins Leopold of Anhalt-Köthen.