''Jauchzet dem Herrn alle Welt'' is a three-movement
pasticcio motet
In Western classical music, a motet is mainly a vocal musical composition, of highly diverse form and style, from high medieval music to the present. The motet was one of the pre-eminent polyphonic forms of Renaissance music. According to Margar ...
for double
SATB choir. It includes music by
Georg Philipp Telemann and
Johann Sebastian Bach. The text of the motet is a German paraphrase of
Psalm 100
Psalm 100 is the 100th psalm in the Book of Psalms in the Hebrew Bible. In English, it is translated as "Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands" in the King James Version (KJV), and as "O be joyful in the Lord, all ye lands" in the Book ...
.
There is some doubt as to who compiled the work: it may have been Bach or
Johann Gottlob Harrer
Gottlob Harrer (8 May 1703 – 9 July 1755) was a German composer and choir leader.
Life
Harrer was born in Görlitz, and studied music in Leipzig and Italy. From 1731 he worked in the chapel-choir of Reichsgraf Heinrich von Brühl. Following ...
, who after Bach's death in 1750 succeeded him as
Thomaskantor.
''Jauchzet dem Herrn alle Welt'' appears as , that is in
Anhang III, the annex of spurious works, of the 1998 edition of the ''
Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis'' (BWV). Later it was renumbered to In the catalogue of works by Telemann (
TWV The Telemann-Werke-Verzeichnis (Telemann Works Catalogue), abbreviated TWV, is the numbering system identifying compositions by Georg Philipp Telemann, published by musicologist Martin Ruhnke.
The prefix TWV is generally followed by a Music genre, ...
) the motet has the number 8:10.
History
The scribe of one of the extant manuscripts of the work, a manuscript that attributes the work to Bach, was formerly believed to be
Johann Christoph Altnickol,
Bach's son-in-law, but appears actually to be Johann Christoph Farlau.
Thanks to the researches of
Peter Wollny
Peter Wollny (born 29 June 1961) is a German musicologist, a Bach scholar who has served the Bach Archive Leipzig beginning in 1993, and as its director from 2014. Wollny has contributed to the Neue Bach-Ausgabe, and has been an editor of '' Car ...
, Farlau has been identified as copyist of a number of works by Bach, notably an early version of the
St Matthew Passion
The ''St Matthew Passion'' (german: Matthäus-Passion, links=-no), BWV 244, is a '' Passion'', a sacred oratorio written by Johann Sebastian Bach in 1727 for solo voices, double choir and double orchestra, with libretto by Picander. It sets ...
. Farlau is believed to have studied with Altnickol in the 1750s. His interest in Bach's music continued after Altnickol's death. His copy of ''Jauchzet dem Herrn alle Welt'' is dated to the second half of the 18th century (1760–1789).
Another manuscript of around the same time attributes the work to "Bach and Telemann".
Movements
The first movement of ''Jauchzet dem Herrn alle Welt'' is likely an adaptation by Bach of a composition by Telemann.
[ Philipp Spitta. ''Johann Sebastian Bach''. Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, third print (1921)]
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The second movement of the motet is derived from a composition by Bach: it is based on the second movement of his cantata BWV 28, which also appears as a separate motet for SATB choir BWV 28/2a (''Sei Lob und Preis mit Ehren'', formerly BWV 231).
Recordings
* Thomanerchor Leipzig
The Thomanerchor (English: St. Thomas Choir of Leipzig) is a boys' choir in Leipzig, Germany. The choir was founded in 1212. The choir comprises about 90 boys from 9 to 18 years of age. The members, called ''Thomaner'', reside in a boarding sch ...
, Baroque Brass of London and Capella Thomana conducted by Georg Christoph Biller (recorded February 1997).
References
Further reading
* Wyant Morton
''Questions of authenticity in three motets attributed to Johann Sebastian Bach''
The University of Arizona, 1992.
External links
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{{Bach motets
Motets by Johann Sebastian Bach
Bach: spurious and doubtful works
Sacred vocal music by Georg Philipp Telemann
Psalm settings