Title: Erfreute Zeit im neuen Bunde, BWV 83
Content: 1) Aria (alto): Erfreute Zeit im neuen Bunde ; 2) Aria (Chorale and recitative, bass): Herr, nun lässest du deinen Diener in Friede fahren, wie du gesaget hast – Was uns als Menschen schrecklich scheint ; 3) Aria (tenor): Eile, Herz, voll Freudigkeit ; 4) Recitative (alto): Ja, merkt dein Glaube noch viel Finsternis ; 5) Chorale: Es ist das Heil und selig Licht The cantata in five movements is festively scored for alto, tenor and bass soloists, a four-part choir in the chorale, two horns, two oboes, solo violin, two violins, viola, and basso continuo. 
Title: Erfreute Zeit im neuen Bunde, BWV 83
Content:  Erfreute Zeit im neuen Bunde (Joyful time in the new covenant), BWV 83, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. He wrote it in 1724 in Leipzig for the feast Mariae Reinigung (Purification) and first performed it on 2 February 1724.
Title: Erfreute Zeit im neuen Bunde, BWV 83
Content:  death. In the second movement, he comments the words of the canticle "Herr, nun lässest du deinen Diener in Friede fahren" by recitative. He shapes movement 3 as a close paraphrase of. Movement 4 recalls the last verse of the gospel, the closing chorale expresses the same thought in Martin Luther's words, the fourth stanza of his hymn "Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin". The cantata was possibly Bach's first cantata for the occasion. He first performed it on 2 February 1724 and again in 1727. In 1725 he composed a chorale cantata Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin, BWV 125, on Luther's German version of the Canticle of Simeon, in 1727 he wrote the solo cantata Ich habe genung, BWV 82.
Title: Erfreute Zeit im neuen Bunde, BWV 83
Content:  by all strings in unison and the continuo. After the first verse of the canticle, three sections of secco recitative are interrupted by the canonic music, finally the other two verses of the canticle are treated as the first. The use of psalm tones was already considered an archaism in Bach's time. In Movement 3 the concertante violin plays endless runs in triplets, to illustrate "Hurry, heart, full of joy", the voice imitates the runs. A short secco recitative leads to the four-part chorale. Bach had used this chorale already in his early funeral cantata Actus tragicus (1707 or 1708).
Title: Erfreute Zeit im neuen Bunde, BWV 83
Content:  The first da capo aria is richly scored for the full orchestra. Its first section celebrates the "joyful time". The ritornell presents a first motif in upward coloraturas, which is later picked up by the voice, then playful contrasting "choirs" of instruments, and virtuoso figuration of the solo violin. In great contrast the middle section concentrates on "our resting place, our grave", the violin imitating funeral bells by repetitions on open strings. Movement 2 is singular in Bach's cantatas. It contains the canticle of Simeon, sung by the bass on the eighth psalm tone of Gregorian chant, while a canon is 
Title: Bach cantata
Content:  rowspan="2" | 1. ; rowspan="2" | 1724-02-02 ; Cantata Erfreute Zeit im neuen Bunde (Purification) ; F maj. ; data-sort-value="atbSATB Hnx2 Obx2 Vl Str Bc" | atbSATB 2Hn 2Ob Vl Str Bc ; data-sort-value="000.20 1: 051" | 201: 51 ; data-sort-value="I/28 1: 003" | I/28.1: 3 ; after Z 3986 (/5); text after Lk 2:29-31 (/2), Hb 4:16 (/3), by Luther (/5) ; - style="background: #E3F6CE;" ; data-sort-value="0083.005" | 83/5 ; chorale setting "Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin" (s. 4) ; D min. ; SATB ; data-sort-value="000.20 1: 076" | 201: 76 ; data-sort-value="III/02 2: 188" | 
Title: Church cantata (Bach)
Content: Erfreute Zeit im neuen Bunde, BWV 83 Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin, BWV 125 Johann Ludwig Bach's Mache dich auf, werde licht, JLB 9 (1726, BDW ) ; Ich habe genug, BWV 82 (first version in C minor: 1727) ; BWV 83 probably restaged 1727 Herr, nun lässest du deinen Diener in Friede fahren (no known setting by Bach) BWV 82 (second version in E minor: 1731; two further versions in C minor) ; BWV 161: used to be a Trinity XVI cantata (see above): from around 1735 restaged as Purification cantata ; BWV 125 restaged after 1735 ; BWV 157, originally a funeral cantata (see below), was later restaged as cantata for Purification ; BWV 
Title: Die Zeit, die Tag und Jahre macht, BWV 134a
Content:  Johann Sebastian Bach composed the secular cantata Die Zeit, die Tag und Jahre macht (Time, which day and year doth make), BWV134.1, BWV134a, while he was in the service of the court of Leopold, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen. Bach wrote the work as a serenata for the celebration of New Year's Day 1719. The libretto by Christian Friedrich Hunold, an academic at the University of Halle, takes the form of a dialogue between two allegorical figures, Time and Divine Providence, representing the past and future, respectively. Bach set the words in eight movements consisting of alternating recitatives and arias, culminating in a choral finale. 
Title: Schlage doch, gewünschte Stunde, BWV 53
Content:  revision of the BWV, by Dürr and Yoshitake Kobayashi, Schlage doch, gewünschte Stunde was moved to the second Anhang, that is the Anhang of works doubtfully attributed to Bach, naming Hoffmann as its possible composer. If composed by Hoffmann, it must have originated from around the first decade of the 18th century: Hoffmann died in October 1715, ten years after becoming organist and director musices (music director) of the Neukirche in Leipzig. Many modern full scores or vocal scores, such as the editions of Breitkopf & Härtel and Eulenburg, name the composer of "Schlage doch, gewünschte Stunde" as "M. Hoffmann" or "Melchior Hoffmann".
Title: Die Zeit, die Tag und Jahre macht, BWV 134a
Content:  1719 music other than to omit two movements and replace the text with words for the occasion, written by an unknown author. In an adaptation for performances in the 1730s, he composed new recitatives for the Easter texts and made further changes to the music. The cantata, written for a specific occasion, has been performed and recorded rarely, compared with other Bach cantatas. It has been used for congratulatory events such as the 80th birthday of Bach scholar Alfred Dürr, when the cantata title was chosen as that of an international conference about chronology in Bach's music, on which Dürr had focused.

Question: Who was the composer of Erfreute Zeit im neuen Bunde, BWV 83?
Answer: Johann Sebastian Bach.
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