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List Of Canons By Johann Sebastian Bach
This article lists the fugal works of Johann Sebastian Bach, defined here as the fugues, fughettas, and canons, as well as other works containing fugal expositions but not denoted as fugues, such as some choral sections of the Mass in B minor, the ''St Matthew Passion'', the ''St John Passion'', and the cantatas. This sub-list of the complete list of compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach is intended to facilitate the study of Bach's counterpoint techniques. Each work cited in this list will be annotated with the fugal subject(s) and any countersubjects in musical notation. Cantata fugues * BWV 6.1 – Choir Fugue, middle section: “Bleib bei uns, denn es will Abend werden” * BWV 17.1 – Sinfonia and Fugue: “Wer Dank opfert, der preiset mich” * BWV 21.2 – Choir Fugue: “Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis in meinem Herzen” * BWV 21.6 – Preludium and permutation Fugue: “Was betrübst du dich, meine Seele” * BWV 21.11 – Preludium and permutation Fugue: “Das Lamm, das ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach (28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period. He is known for his orchestral music such as the '' Brandenburg Concertos''; instrumental compositions such as the Cello Suites; keyboard works such as the '' Goldberg Variations'' and '' The Well-Tempered Clavier''; organ works such as the '' Schubler Chorales'' and the Toccata and Fugue in D minor; and vocal music such as the '' St Matthew Passion'' and the Mass in B minor. Since the 19th-century Bach revival he has been generally regarded as one of the greatest composers in the history of Western music. The Bach family already counted several composers when Johann Sebastian was born as the last child of a city musician in Eisenach. After being orphaned at the age of 10, he lived for five years with his eldest brother Johann Christoph, after which he continued his musical education in Lüneburg. From 1703 he was back in Thuringia, working as a musician for Protest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brich Dem Hungrigen Dein Brot, BWV 39
Johann Sebastian Bach composed the church cantata ("Break with hungry men thy bread" or "Give the hungry ones thy bread"), , in Leipzig and first performed on 23 June 1726, the first Sunday after Trinity that year. Three years earlier, on the first Sunday after Trinity in 1723, Bach had taken office as and started his first cycle of cantatas for Sundays and Feast Days in the liturgical year. On the first Sunday after Trinity in 1724, he began his second cycle, consisting of chorale cantatas. The cantata is regarded as part of Bach's third cantata cycle which was written sporadically between 1725 and 1727. The text of the cantata is taken from a 1704 collection of librettos from Meiningen, many of which had been set to music in the cantatas of Bach's distant cousin Johann Ludwig Bach, Kapellmeister at Meiningen. The librettos have been attributed to his employer Duke Ernst Ludwig von Sachsen-Meiningen. The symmetrical structure of seven movements is typical for this co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Die Himmel Erzählen Die Ehre Gottes, BWV 76
Johann Sebastian Bach composed the church cantata (), 76 in Leipzig for the second Sunday after Trinity of the liturgical year and first performed it on 6 June 1723. Bach composed the cantata at a decisive turning point in his career. Moving from posts in the service of churches and courts to the town of Leipzig on the first Sunday after Trinity, 30 May 1723, he began the project of composing a new cantata for every occasion of the liturgical year. He began his first annual cycle of cantatas ambitiously with , in an unusual layout of 14 movements in two symmetrical parts, to be performed before and after the sermon. , performed a week later, has the same structure. The unknown poet begins his text with a quotation from Psalm 19 and refers to both prescribed readings from the New Testament, the parable of the great banquet as the Gospel, and the First Epistle of John. Bach scored Part I with a trumpet as a symbol of God's Glory. In Part II, performed after the sermon and durin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Die Elenden Sollen Essen, BWV 75
Johann Sebastian Bach composed the church cantata (The miserable shall eat), 75, in Leipzig for the first Sunday after Trinity and first performed it on 30 May 1723. The complex work in two parts of seven movements each marks the beginning of his first annual cycle of cantatas. Bach composed the cantata at a decisive turning point in his career. After various positions in churches and courts, he assumed his post of ''Thomaskantor'' in Leipzig on the first Sunday after Trinity, performing this cantata. He began the ambitious project of composing a new cantata for every occasion of the liturgical year. The work is structured in an unusual layout of 14 movements in two symmetrical parts, to be performed before and after the sermon. The unknown poet begins his text with a quotation from Psalm 22 and departs from its ideas on wealth and poverty, rich and poor, and illustrates the contrasts. The focus of the second part is on being poor or rich in spirit. Both parts are concluded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gott Ist Mein König, BWV 71
' (God is my King), , is a cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach written in Mühlhausen when the composer was 22 years old. Unusually for an early cantata by Bach, the date of first performance is known: at the inauguration of a new town council on 4 February 1708. The text is compiled mainly from biblical sources, three different sections from Psalm 74 and several other verses. In addition, one stanza from Johann Heermann's hymn "" is sung simultaneously with corresponding biblical text, and free poetry by an unknown poet of Bach's time which relates to the political occasion. The cantata in seven movements is scored festively with a Baroque instrumental ensemble including trumpets and timpani, "four separate instrumental 'choirs', set against a vocal consort of four singers, an optional ''Capelle'' of ripienists and an organ". Stylistically it shares features with Bach's other early cantatas. Bach, then organist in Mühlhausen's church ''Divi Blasii'', led the performance on ... [...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] |
Also Hat Gott Die Welt Geliebt, BWV 68
(God so loved the world), 68, is a cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach, a church cantata for the second day of Pentecost. Bach composed the cantata in Leipzig and first performed it on 21 May 1725. It is one of nine cantatas on texts by Christiana Mariana von Ziegler, which Bach composed at the end of his second annual cycle of cantatas in Leipzig. In a unique structure among Bach's church cantatas, it begins with a chorale and ends with a complex choral movement on a quotation from the Gospel of John. Bach derived the two arias from his '' Hunting Cantata''. History and words Bach composed the cantata during his second year in Leipzig for Pentecost Monday. The prescribed readings for the feast day were taken from the Acts of the Apostles, the sermon of Saint Peter for Cornelius (), and the Gospel of John, "God so loved the world" from the meeting of Jesus and Nicodemus (). In his second year in Leipzig, Bach composed chorale cantatas between the first Sunday after Trinity ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Halt Im Gedächtnis Jesum Christ, BWV 67
(Keep Jesus Christ in mind), 67, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed it in Leipzig for , the first Sunday after Easter, and first performed it on 16 April 1724. Based on the prescribed gospel of the appearance of Jesus to the Disciples, first without then with Thomas, an unknown poet compares the situation of the doubtful Thomas to the Christian in general. He places Nikolaus Herman's Easter hymn "" in the centre of the cantata, repeats the line "" (Peace be with you) several times, and ends with the first stanza from Jakob Ebert's hymn "" (Thou Prince of Peace, Lord Jesus Christ). Bach structured the work in seven movements, arranged in symmetry around the central chorale, and scored it for three solo voices, a four-part choir and a Baroque instrumental ensemble of a slide horn for hymn tunes, flauto traverso, two oboes d'amore, strings and basso continuo. Besides the unusual central chorale, the cantata contains a dramatic scena with Jesus repeati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sie Werden Aus Saba Alle Kommen, BWV 65
(They will all come forth out of Sheba), 65, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed it in 1724 in Leipzig for Epiphany and first performed it on 6 January 1724 as part of his first cantata cycle. Bach wrote the cantata to conclude his first Christmas season as ''Thomaskantor'' in Leipzig which had been celebrated with five cantatas, four of them new compositions, the Magnificat and a new Sanctus. The text by an anonymous author, who possibly supplied texts of two of the Christmas cantatas as well, combines the prescribed readings for the feast day, the prophecy from the Book of Isaiah and the gospel of Matthew about the Wise Men from the East. The librettist begins with a quotation from the prophecy, comments it by a stanza of the early anonymous Christmas carol "", says in a sequence of recitatives and arias that the prophecy was fulfilled in Bethlehem, concluding that the Christian should bring his heart as a gift. The cantata ends with a chorale, stanza 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christen, ätzet Diesen Tag, BWV 63
(Christians, engrave this day), 63, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed the Christmas cantata for the First Day of Christmas, possibly in 1713 for the in Halle. He performed it again for his first Christmas as in Leipzig, on 25 December 1723. History and words The cantata is Bach's earliest extant cantata for Christmas Day, possibly composed in Weimar as early as 1713. The text of the cantata, which echoes theologians in Halle, suggests that it was composed with Halle's in mind, in 1713, when Bach applied to be organist of this church, or in 1716, when he was involved in rebuilding its organ. The text is possibly by that church's Johann Michael Heineccius, who also wrote the libretti for other Bach cantatas definitely written for Halle and had favoured Bach's application for organist at the church as a successor to Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow. Musicologist Christoph Wolff deduces from the "lavish forces" of four trumpets, timpani and three oboes on top ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Widerstehe Doch Der Sünde, BWV 54
(Just resist sin), BWV 54, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed the solo cantata for alto in Weimar between 1711 and 1714, and probably performed it on the seventh Sunday after Trinity, 15 July 1714. It is Bach's first extant church cantata for a solo voice. The text of the short work was written by Georg Christian Lehms, for two arias and a connecting recitative. The topic is to resist sin, based on the Epistle of James. The text was published in a 1711 collection, dedicated to the Sunday Oculi. It is not known when Bach composed the work but is assumed that he performed it as part of his monthly cantata productions in 1714 on the seventh Sunday after Trinity, 15 July. The solo voice is accompanied by strings: two violin parts, two viola parts and continuo. The composition begins with a striking dissonant chord. History and words The history of the composition is not clear. The text was written by Georg Christian Lehms for Oculi, the third Sund ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nun Ist Das Heil Und Die Kraft, BWV 50
' (Now is omesalvation and strength), 50, is a choral movement long attributed to Johann Sebastian Bach and assumed to be part of a lost cantata. The text and scoring point towards its being written for a Michaelmas celebration. In Leipzig, where Bach was employed from 1723, the feast was celebrated with large-scale church music and also a trade fair. American Bach scholar William H. Scheide suggested that the work was written in 1723, Bach's first year in the city.Scheide, William H. 'Nun ist das Heil und die Kraft' BWV 50: Doppelchörigkeit, Datierung und Bestimmung.' (Leipzig, 1982: ''Bach-Jahrbuch'') However, the exact dates of composition and first performance are unknown. History and text The work was first published in 1860 in a volume of cantatas, part of the first complete edition of Bach's music, the Bach-Gesellschaft Ausgabe (BGA). It has fascinated Bach scholars because of questions about its provenance. No autograph sources exist, and the earliest copies extant do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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