The cantata Welt adieu, ich bin dein müde is intended for the 24th Sunday after Trinity, being part of the end of the church year. Based on the scribes of the handwritten set of parts, the editor assumes that it was performed around 1720. The cantata therefore falls into the last years of Kuhnau’s life and can also be considered a kind of “swan song” of Kuhnau’s due to its fitting theme of death and eternity. It is also one of only two surviving pure choral cantatas, even if others are also pa...

• 1. Sonata – Versus 1: Welt adieu, ich bin dein müde
• 2. Versus 2: Ich bin schon da angekommen
• 3. Versus 3: Was empfind ich da vor Freude
• 4. Versus 4: Unsausprechlich schöne singet
• 5. Versus 5: Lasst doch euer Trauren bleiben
• 6. Versus 6: Denket, dass es wird geschehen
• 7. Sonata – Versus 7: Ich bin nun vorangegangen