Angenehmes Wiederau, Titelblatt des originalen Textdrucks (1737)

(Pleasant Wiederau, rejoice in thy meadows), BWV 30.1 (formerly BWV 30a),Work , ''Angenehmes Wiederau, freue dich in deinen Auen'', at Bach Digital website. is a 1737

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, on a

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Christian Friedrich Henrici Christian Friedrich Henrici (January 14, 1700 – May 10, 1764), writing under the pen name Picander, was a German poet and librettist for many of the cantatas which Johann Sebastian Bach composed in Leipzig. Henrici was born in Stolpen. He stud ...

(Picander). Bach reused some of its music in later works, including ''Freue dich, erlöste Schar'', BWV 30.2, one of his church cantatas, which was nearly entirely modelled after the secular composition.Work , ''Freue dich, erlöste Schar'', at Bach Digital website.

History and text

was composed in

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in 1737 by which time most of Bach's cantatas had already been completed. It was an homage to , who had acquired an estate at in Pegau near

. The work was performed on 28 September at Hennicke's . The

of the cantata was written by

(Picander), a frequent collaborator of the composer.

Scoring and structure

Johann Sebastian Bach, Angenehmes Wiederau, Autograph

The piece is scored for

basso continuo Basso continuo parts, almost universal in the Baroque era (1600–1750), provided the harmonic structure of the music by supplying a bassline and a chord progression. The phrase is often shortened to continuo, and the instrumentalists playing th ...

, along with four vocal soloists (

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as ''Zeit'' (Time),

alto The musical term alto, meaning "high" in Italian (Latin: ''altus''), historically refers to the contrapuntal part higher than the tenor and its associated vocal range. In 4-part voice leading alto is the second-highest part, sung in choruses by ...

as ''Glück'' (Good Fortune),

tenor A tenor is a type of classical music, classical male singing human voice, voice whose vocal range lies between the countertenor and baritone voice types. It is the highest male chest voice type. The tenor's vocal range extends up to C5. The lo ...

as ''Elster'' (River

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as ''Schicksal'' (Fate)) and four-part choir. The cantata has thirteen movements: #Chorus: ' # Recitative (bass, soprano, alto, tenor): ' #

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(bass): ' #Recitative (alto): ' #Aria (alto): ' #Recitative (bass): ' #Aria (bass): ' #Recitative (soprano): ' #Aria (soprano): ' #Recitative (tenor): ' #Aria (tenor): ' #Recitative (soprano, bass, alto): ' #Chorus: '

Music

The eleventh movement, a tenor aria, is a reworking of a soprano aria from

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. The other major movements were later reused in

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, while the recitatives were newly composed.Classical Net
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Recordings

* Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir;

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. ''J.S. Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 22''. Antoine Marchand * Gächinger Kantorei, Bach-Collegium Stuttgart; Helmuth Rilling. ''Edition Bachakademie Vol. 139 – Congratulatory and Hommage Cantatas''. Hänssler *

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Neues Bachisches Collegium Musicum Neues Bachisches Collegium Musicum (NBCM, New Bach's Collegium Musicum) is a German chamber orchestra, founded in Leipzig, Saxony. It follows the tradition of collegia musica, developed by Johann Sebastian Bach, also in Leipzig. The orchestra is de ...

; Max Pommer. ''Kantate "Angenehmes Wiederau" BWV 30a''. Eterna/Berlin Classic * Les Chantres du Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles/

Café Zimmermann The Café Zimmermann, or was the coffeehouse of Gottfried Zimmermann in Leipzig which formed the backdrop to the first performances of many of Bach's secular cantatas, e.g. the ''Coffee Cantata'' (''Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht''), and instr ...

;

Gustav Leonhardt Gustav Maria Leonhardt (30 May 1928 – 16 January 2012) was a Dutch keyboardist, conductor, musicologist, teacher and editor. He was a leading figure in the historically informed performance movement to perform music on period instruments. Leo ...

. ''J.S. Bach: Weltliche Kantaten BWV 30a & 207 (Integrale delle Cantate profane Vol. 5)''. Alpha 118 * Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki. ''J. S. Bach: Secular Cantatas, Vol. 10''. BIS, 2018.

References

Sources

* Alfred Dürr: ''Johann Sebastian Bach: Die Kantaten.'' Bärenreiter, Kassel 1999, * Alfred Dürr: ''The Cantatas of J.S. Bach'', Oxford University Press, 2006. *

Werner Neumann Werner Neumann (21 January 1905, Königstein, Saxony, Königstein – 24 April 1991, Leipzig) was a German musicologist. He founded the Bach-Archiv Leipzig on 20 November 1950 and was a principal editor of the Neue Bach-Ausgabe, the second editio ...

: ''Handbuch der Kantaten J.S.Bachs'', 1947, 5th Ed. 1984, * Hans-Joachim Schulze: ''Die Bach-Kantaten: Einführungen zu sämtlichen Kantaten Johann Sebastian Bachs''. Leipzig: Evangelische Verlags-Anstalt; Stuttgart: Carus-Verlag 2006 (Edition

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) (Evang. Verl.-Anst.), ( Carus-Verlag) * Christoph Wolff/Ton Koopman: ''Die Welt der Bach-Kantaten'' Verlag J.B. Metzler, Stuttgart, Weimar 2006

External links

* * Z. Philip Ambrose
BWV 30a: Angenehmes Wiederau, freue dich in deinen Auen!
– English translation of the libretto at

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