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Title page of the manuscript score Ich geh und suche mit Verlangen (I go forth and seek with longing), BWV 49, is a church cantata composed by J. S. Bach in 1726, his fourth year in Leipzig. Intended for the twentieth Sunday after Trinity , he first performed it on 3 November that year. The librettist , Christoph Birkmann , based his text on the Sunday's Gospel, the Parable of the Great Banquet . He focused on the wedding feast, taking imagery from the love poetry of the Song of Songs , seen as a dialogue between Jesus and the Soul as his bride. The cantata, in six movements , begins with a si

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