BWV 163 Nur jedem das Seine!
Twenty-third Sunday after Trinity. Salomo Franck, Evangelisches Andachts-Opffer ... in geistlichen Cantaten (Weimar, 1715); Facs: Neumann T, p. 287. 5. Instrumental citation of "Meinen Jesum laß ich nicht" (cf. BWV 157/5); 6. Johann Heermann, final verse of "Wo soll ich fliehen hin," 1630 (Fischer-Tümpel, I, #322). 24 November 1715, Weimar. BG 33; NBA I/26. 1. Aria (T) To each but what's due him!
Toll, taxes, and tribute, Let no one refuse The debt that he owes! Yet bound is the heart but to God the Almighty. 2. Recit. (B) Thou art, my God, of every gift the giver;
3. Aria (B) Let my heart the coinage be
4. Arioso (S, A) I would to thee,
5. Aria (S, A) with instr. chorale From me take me, make me thine!
6. Chorale (S, A, T, B) Lead both my heart and mind
1. The coinage metaphor in this text springs not only from the Gospel lection in which the Pharisees test Jesus with a coin bearing Caesar's likeness; it reflects Salomo Franck's own interest in numismatics. The concept of the coin's image as an object of imitation is not found in the Gospel reading, but it does occur in a poem Franck wrote on the coin collection of Duke Wilhelm Ernst. 2. The text of this aria is a bold experiment in jingle. The sound "i" is used in 28 words. One may compare BWV 12/6 for this Franckian characteristic. © Copyright Z. Philip Ambrose |