Title page of the manuscript score Ich geh und suche mit Verlangen

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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