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BWV 119
(Praise the Lord, Jerusalem), BWV 119, is a sacred cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed it in Leipzig for ''Ratswechsel'', the inauguration of a new town council, and first performed it on 30 August 1723. Bach composed the cantata in his first year as ''Thomaskantor'' in Leipzig, about three months after taking office at the end of May 1723. A festive service at the Nikolaikirche was an annual event, celebrating the inauguration of a new town council, always held on the Monday after St. Bartholomew (August 24). The text by an anonymous poet includes psalm verses and an excerpt from Martin Luther's German Te Deum. It is focused on acknowledgement of authority as a gift of God, thanks for past blessings, and prayer for future help. The cantata is structured in nine movements, three of them choral (1, 7, 9), the others alternating arias and recitatives. The orchestra is large and representative, with four trumpets, timpani, two recorders and three oboes, in additi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bach Cantata
The cantatas composed by Johann Sebastian Bach, known as Bach cantatas (German: ), are a body of work consisting of over 200 surviving independent works, and at least several dozen that are considered lost. As far as known, Bach's earliest cantatas date from 1707, the year he moved to Mühlhausen, although he may have begun composing them at his previous post in Arnstadt. Most of Bach's church cantatas date from his first years as and director of church music in Leipzig, a position which he took up in 1723. Working for Leipzig's and , it was part of Bach's job to perform a church cantata every Sunday and holiday, conducting soloists, the Thomanerchor and orchestra as part of the church service. In his first years in Leipzig, starting after Trinity of 1723, Bach regularly composed a new cantata every week, although some of these cantatas were adapted (at least in part) from work he had composed before his Leipzig era. Works from three annual cycles of cantatas for the lit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leipzig Nikolaikirche 18 Jh
Leipzig ( , ; Upper Saxon: ) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. Leipzig's population of 605,407 inhabitants (1.1 million in the larger urban zone) as of 2021 places the city as Germany's eighth most populous, as well as the second most populous city in the area of the former East Germany after (East) Berlin. Together with Halle (Saale), the city forms the polycentric Leipzig-Halle Conurbation. Between the two cities (in Schkeuditz) lies Leipzig/Halle Airport. Leipzig is located about southwest of Berlin, in the southernmost part of the North German Plain (known as Leipzig Bay), at the confluence of the White Elster River (progression: ) and two of its tributaries: the Pleiße and the Parthe. The name of the city and those of many of its boroughs are of Slavic origin. Leipzig has been a trade city since at least the time of the Holy Roman Empire. The city sits at the intersection of the Via Regia and the Via Imperii, two important medieval trade r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Psalm 147
Psalm 147 is the 147th psalm of the Book of Psalms, beginning in English in the King James Version, "Praise ye the : for it is good to sing praises". In the slightly different numbering system used in the Greek Septuagint version of the Bible, and in the Latin Vulgate/Vulgata Clementina, this psalm is divided into Psalm 146 and Psalm 147. In Latin, Psalm 146 is known as "Laudate Dominum quoniam bonum psalmus", and Psalm 147 as "Lauda Jerusalem Dominum". Both are considered psalms of praise and feature among the five final praise psalms in the psalter. They are used as regular parts of Jewish, Catholic, Anglican, Lutheran, and other Protestant liturgies and have often been set to music. Alternate numbering system The Greek Septuagint and Latin Vulgate versions of the Bible follow the numbering system for the psalms used by the Hebrew Bible and King James Version through Psalm 8, but combine and divide several psalms after that. Psalm 147 is the last to be divided into two parts, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lobe Den Herrn, Meine Seele, BWV 69a
Johann Sebastian Bach composed the church cantata (Praise the Lord, my soul), 69a, also BWV69.1, at Bach Digital website: Lobe den Herrn, meine Seele BWV 69.1; BWV 69a; BC A 123 / Sacred cantata (12th Sunday after Trinity) in Leipzig for the twelfth Sunday after Trinity and first performed it on 15 August 1723. It is part of his first cantata cycle. History and words Bach wrote the cantata in his first year in Leipzig, which he had started after Trinity of 1723, for the Twelfth Sunday after Trinity. The prescribed readings for the Sunday were from the Second Epistle to the Corinthians, the ministry of the Spirit (), and from the Gospel of Mark, the healing of a deaf mute man (). The unknown poet referred to the gospel, but saw in the healing more generally God constantly doing good for man. The opening chorus is therefore taken from , "Praise the Lord, my soul, and do not forget the good He has done for you". The poetry refers to "telling" several times, related to the heal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lobe Den Herrn, Meine Seele, BWV 69
(Praise the Lord, my soul), 69, also BWV69.2,Work at Bach Digital website: Lobe den Herrn, meine Seele BWV 69.2; BWV 69; BC B 10 / Sacred cantata (Council election) is a cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. History and text Bach composed a cantata with this title ( BWV 69a/69.1) in 1723 during his first year in Leipzig. Bach revived the work later in the 1720s, changing the instrumentation of one of the arias. Much later, in 1748, he reworked the cantata for the church service which was held to mark the inauguration of a town council. The recitatives and the chorale were changed. In this form, it was first performed on 26 August 1748. The festive orchestration of the original work was suitable for the new occasion. The text of the first movement is from Psalm 103. The chorale is the third verse of "" by Martin Luther (1524). The author of the rest of the text is unknown. Scoring and structure The cantata is scored for four solo voices (soprano, alto, tenor, and bass), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gott, Man Lobet Dich In Der Stille, BWV 120
(God, You are praised in the stillness), BWV 120.1 (previously ),Work at Bach Digital website. is a sacred cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed it in Leipzig for the occasion of , the inauguration of a new town council in a church service, probably before 1730, or, alternatively, in 1742. Parts of the cantata appeared in a wedding cantata () and a cantata commemorating the Augsburg Confession in 1730 ().Work at Bach Digital website. Bach reworked the choral second movement for the '' Symbolum Nicenum'' of his Mass in B minor. History Bach composed the cantata in Leipzig for the inauguration of the newly elected town council, which took place in a festive service at the Nikolaikirche on the Monday following St. Bartholomew's Day (24 August). A first performance in 1728 or 1729 is regarded as likely, or according to other sources, such as Klaus Hofmann, 1742. The autograph score of that performance is preserved, with the heading "J. J. Concerto à 4 Voci. due H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wir Danken Dir, Gott, Wir Danken Dir, BWV 29
(We thank you, God, we thank you), 29, is a sacred cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed it in Leipzig in 1731 for , the annual inauguration of a new town council, and first performed it on 27 August of that year. The cantata was part of a festive service in the . The cantata text by an unknown author includes in movement 2 the beginning of Psalm 75, and as the closing chorale the fifth stanza of Johann Gramann's "". Bach scored the work in eight movements for four vocal parts and a festive Baroque orchestra of three trumpets, timpani, two oboes, strings, an obbligato organ and basso continuo. The organ dominates the first movement ''Sinfonia'' which Bach derived from a ''Partita'' for violin. The full orchestra accompanies the first choral movement and plays with the voices in the closing chorale, while a sequence of three arias alternating with two recitatives is scored intimately. Bach used the music from the choral movement for both the and of his Mass in B minor. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ihr Tore Zu Zion, BWV 193
also called (You gates of Zion), BWV 193, is a sacred cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed it in Leipzig for , the inauguration of a new town council, in 1727 and first performed it on 25 August 1727. The music survives in an incomplete state. History and words While living in Leipzig Bach composed several cantatas for the ''Ratswechsel'', the inauguration of the newly elected town council. This event took place in a festive service, which was not part of the liturgical year, on the Monday following the feast of St. Bartholomew on 24 August. In 1723, Bach's first year in Leipzig, he began the series with . Another cantata was performed in 1725, but only the text has survived. Bach first performed , BWV 193 on 25 August 1727 at St. Nicholas Church. The words are by an unknown poet, who is assumed by Christoph Wolff to have been Bach's regular collaborator Picander, the librettist of the related secular cantata. The text identifies Leipzig with the holy city of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herrscher Des Himmels, König Der Ehren, BWV Anh
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Gott, Gib Dein Gerichte Dem Könige, BWV Anh 3
In Johann Sebastian Bach's time, the election or inauguration of a new town council, normally an annual event, was celebrated with a church service. A cantata written for such occasion was indicated with the term (council election) or (council change). Bach composed such cantatas for Mühlhausen and for Leipzig. Five of these cantatas ( BWV 71, 119, 120.1, 29 and 69.2) are entirely extant. One further cantata, BWV 193.2, lost part of its music, and there are another five that have only been known to exist (two for Mühlhausen), or for which only the text is extant (three for Leipzig). Bach worked in Mühlhausen from 1707 to 1708. His first council election cantata for that town was performed and printed in 1708. Two further works for council election in Mühlhausen, BWV 1138.1 (in 1709) and 1138.2 (in 1710) are documented. These latter works are entirely lost, in contrast to the first, BWV 71, of which both Bach's autograph and the contemporary print su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Bach Cantatas By Liturgical Function
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