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(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
was composed in Leipzig 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 Leipzig. The work was performed on 28 September at Hennicke's .
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BWV 30a: Angenehmes Wiederau, freue dich in deinen Auen!
– English translation of the libretto at University of Vermont website.
Schloss Wiederau: Gerettet vor den Braunkohle-Baggern
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(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 secular cantata
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by Johann Sebastian Bach, on a libretto
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by 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 Leipzig 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 Leipzig. The work was performed on 28 September at Hennicke's .
The libretto
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of the cantata was written by 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), a frequent collaborator of the composer.
Scoring and structure
The piece is scored for basso continuo
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, along with four vocal soloists (soprano
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as ''Zeit'' (Time), alto
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as ''Glück'' (Good Fortune), tenor as ''Elster'' (River Elster), bass
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as ''Schicksal'' (Fate)) and four-part choir.
The cantata has thirteen movements:
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Music
The eleventh movement, a tenor aria, is a reworking of a soprano aria fromBWV 210
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. The other major movements were later reused in BWV 30.2
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, while the recitatives were newly composed./ref>
Recordings
* Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir; Ton Koopman. ''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 *Leipziger Universitätschor
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, Neues Bachisches Collegium Musicum
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; Max Pommer
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Career
Born in Leipzig, Pommer was a student of t ...
. ''Kantate "Angenehmes Wiederau" BWV 30a''. Eterna/Berlin Classic
* Les Chantres du Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles/ Café Zimmermann; 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: ''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 (EditionBach-Archiv Leipzig
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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 AmbroseBWV 30a: Angenehmes Wiederau, freue dich in deinen Auen!
– English translation of the libretto at University of Vermont website.
Schloss Wiederau: Gerettet vor den Braunkohle-Baggern
at – history of Wiederau manor {{DEFAULTSORT:Angenehmes Wiederau BWV 30a Secular cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach 1737 compositions