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Johann Michael Bach (1648 - 1694):
SEI LIEBER TAG WILLKOMMEN -
Welcome, good day

Johann Michael Bach was a German composer of the Baroque period. He was the brother of Johann Christoph Bach, as well as father of Johann Sebastian Bach's first wife Maria Barbara.

A pamphlet issued by the council in Gehren refers to Johann Michael as a "quiet, withdrawn and artistically well-versed subject"; within the family he was considered a "capable composer". As a composer, in fact, he is on almost the same level as his brother Johann Christoph. Especially in the chorale motet, the vocal form to which he almost exclusively devoted himself, he composed works of real significance. His convincing treatment of spoken declamation is particularly notable. As in his brother's music, the older, strongly homophonic style predominates, but in such works as "Sei lieber Tag willkommen" (written for New Year) he turned to the new, freer style with melismatic passages.

Sei, lieber Tag, willkommen,
willkommen sei du heut!
Heut freuen sich die Frommen,
die Frommen, die allzeit,
allzeit den großen Gott,
Gott, ihren Schöpfer, loben,
ihn loben hoch dort oben,
erlöst aus aller Not.

Denn an dem Tage brachte
der liebste Gottessohn,
was Freude bei uns machte,
aus seinem Himmelsthron:
Ein schönes neues Jahr,
Glück, Heil und allen Segen
zu Wegen und zu Stegen
der ganzen Christenschar!

Drum kommt, ihr Christenbrüder,
kommt her an diesem Tag,
kommt, fallt für Jesu nieder,
damit es euch behag!
Kommt, dankt und bittet ihn,
daß er in diesem Jahre
euch väterlich bewahre
und tue wie vorhin!

Laßt eure Stimmen hören,
laßt klingen Saiten drein,
lobt ihn mit vollen Chören,
laßt alles frölich sein!
Singt, singet eurem Gott,
singt, lobet, danket, betet,
vor euren Jesu tretet,
er schützt vor Not und Tod!

Laßt eure Stimmen hören,
laßt klingen Pfeiffen drein,
lobt ihn mit vollen Chören,
laßt alles frölich sein!
Singt, singet eurem Gott,
singt, lobet, danket, betet,
vor euren Jesu tretet,
er schützt vor Not und Tod!

English translation:
http://www.sfbach.org/text-sei-lieber-tag-willkommen

Vox Luminis (2015)
Conducted by Lionel Meunier

If you wish to listen to another Michael Bach motet "Das Blut Jesu Christi":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32rm5RtDbm4

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