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Late May 1723 Bach took office as Thomaskantor (Kantor at St. Thomas) and director musices (music director) in Leipzig. He remained in that office until his death in 1750. From the first Sunday after Trinity in 1723, that year falling on 30 May, to Trinity Sunday of the next year he presented a series of church cantatas known as his first cantata cyc
Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ (Praise be to You, Jesus Christ), [1] BWV 91, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach.He wrote the Christmas cantata in Leipzig in 1724 for Christmas Day and first performed it on 25 December.
Bach structured the cantata in seven movements.Both text and tune of the hymn are retained in the outer choral movements, a chorale fantasia and a four-part closing chorale, and also in the central movement, a chorale for a solo voice, and in two recitatives that include chorale text and melody, one for a solo voice, the other using the choir for the chorale part. [10]
Bach wrote the chorale cantata in his second year in Leipzig to conclude a set of Christmas cantatas on the Feast of Epiphany. [2] [3] The prescribed readings for the feast day were taken from the Book of Isaiah, the heathen will convert (Isaiah 60:1–6), and from the Gospel of Matthew, the Wise Men From the East bringing gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh to the newborn Jesus (Matthew 2:1 ...
Herr, gehe nicht ins Gericht mit deinem Knecht (Lord, do not pass judgment on Your servant), BWV 105 is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach.He composed it in Leipzig for the ninth Sunday after Trinity and first performed it on 25 July 1723.
Scholars such as John Eliot Gardiner assume that Bach based the cantata on a lost work , probably composed at Köthen for an unknown occasion. [6] The music of movements 2, 4, 6, 7, 8 and 10 is lost, and only instrumental parts of the other movements are extant. Bach added the chorales for the 1723 dedication service.
Wachet! betet! betet! wachet! (Watch! Pray! Pray! Watch!) [1] is the title of two church cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach.He composed a first version, BWV 70a, in Weimar for the second Sunday in Advent of 1716 and expanded it in 1723 in Leipzig to BWV 70, a cantata in two parts for the 26th Sunday after Trinity.
The cantata text of an unknown author is based exclusively on Jakob Ebert's hymn in seven stanzas (1601). [3] The librettist of Bach's chorale cantata cycle is not known, but Bach scholar Christoph Wolff noted that "he must have worked closely with Bach" and named as "the most likely candidate" Andreas Stöbel, a co-rector of the Thomasschule. [1]