(Praised be the Lord daily) is a
church cantata
A church cantata or sacred cantata is a cantata intended to be performed during Christian liturgy. The genre was particularly popular in 18th-century Lutheran Germany, with many composers writing an extensive output: Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel ...
by
Philipp Heinrich Erlebach, for four voices,
strings and continuo. The first
movement is based on
Psalm 68:20. Erlebach structured the composition in six movements, with the last movement repeating the first. The work is extant as a manuscript from around 1710. It has been recorded and performed.
History
Philipp Heinrich Erlebach composed in
Grimma
Grimma (; , ) is a town in Saxony, Central Germany, on the left bank of the Mulde, southeast of Leipzig. Founded in 1170, it is part of the Leipzig district.
Location
The town is in northern Saxony, southeast of Leipzig and south of Wurz ...
around 1710 as a church cantata for the first Sunday after
Trinity
The Trinity (, from 'threefold') is the Christian doctrine concerning the nature of God, which defines one God existing in three, , consubstantial divine persons: God the Father, God the Son (Jesus Christ) and God the Holy Spirit, thr ...
.
The first movement is based on
Psalm 68:20, using
Luther's translation of the Bible. Erlebach set the music for four vocal parts, two violins, two violas and continuo. The work is extant as a manuscript from around 1710,
which is held in the collection Sammlung Fürsten- und Landesschule Grimma.
Music
Erlebach structured the composition in six
movements
Movement may refer to:
Generic uses
* Movement (clockwork), the internal mechanism of a timepiece
* Movement (sign language), a hand movement when signing
* Motion, commonly referred to as movement
* Movement (music), a division of a larger c ...
. The extended first movement is for four solo voices and all four parts are repeated at the end, after four song-like
aria
In music, an aria (, ; : , ; ''arias'' in common usage; diminutive form: arietta, ; : ariette; in English simply air (music), air) is a self-contained piece for one voice, with or without instrument (music), instrumental or orchestral accompan ...
s, one for each soloist, from the highest voice to the lowest.
The incipits are:
# Gelobet sei der Herr täglich
# Wie heilsam meint es doch der treue Gott
# Das Widerspiel ist bei der bösen Zahl
# Man trage mit Geduld des Kreuzes Last
# Der arme Lazarus ruht sanft in Gott
# Gelobet sei der Herr täglich
The first movement is marked
Sinfonia
Sinfonia (; plural ''sinfonie'') is the Italian word for symphony, from the Latin ''symphonia'', in turn derived from Ancient Greek συμφωνία ''symphōnia'' (agreement or concord of sound), from the prefix σύν (together) and Φωνή (s ...
.
Recording and performance
The cantata was recorded in 1999 in a collection of four church cantatas from the period, combined with two works by
Georg Benda
Georg Anton Benda (; 30 June 17226 November 1795) was a Kingdom of Bohemia, Bohemian composer, violinist and ''Kapellmeister'' of the Classical period (music), classical period.
Biography
Born into a Benda family, family of notable musicians in ...
and one by
Carl Friedrich Gessel.
Ludger Rémy conducted the Michaelstein Telemann Chamber Orchestra.
The cantata was performed in a cantata service at the
Dreikönigskirche, Frankfurt on 18 July 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic. The four soloists including
Anne Bierwirth (
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 four-part voice leading alto is the second-highest part, sung in ch ...
) and
Georg Poplutz (
tenor
A tenor is a type of male singing voice whose vocal range lies between the countertenor and baritone voice types. It is the highest male chest voice type. Composers typically write music for this voice in the range from the second B below m ...
) also formed the choir, with the Telemann-Ensemble conducted by Andreas Köhs.
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Church cantatas