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O holder Tag, erwünschte Zeit (O lovely day, o hoped-for time), BWV 210.2, BWV 210, [1] is a secular cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach.He wrote the solo cantata for soprano in Leipzig for a wedding and first performed it between 1738 and 1746.
Bach had used single stanzas of the hymn in his early funeral cantata Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit, BWV 106, and in cantatas of his first Leipzig cycle. In the format of the chorale cantata cycle, an unknown librettist retained the first and last of Luther's four stanzas while paraphrasing the inner stanzas.
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
The sinfonia beginning Part II, rare in Bach's cantatas, is especially remarkable because it is a chorale fantasia on the same chorale melody. [9] The trumpet (which was silent throughout Part I) plays the tune as cantus firmus against a polyphonic string setting, emphasizing once more "Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan" (What God does is well done).
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.
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.
Jesu, nun sei gepreiset BWV 41 Chorale cantata by J. S. Bach Thomaskirche, Leipzig Occasion New Year's Day Chorale "Jesu, nun sei gepreiset" by Johannes Hermann Performed 1 January 1725 (1725-01-01): Leipzig Movements 6 Vocal SATB choir and solo Instrumental 3 trumpets timpani 3 oboes 2 violins viola violoncello piccolo da spalla continuo Jesu, nun sei gepreiset (Jesus, now be praised), BWV 41 ...
The cantata is Bach's earliest extant cantata for Christmas Day, possibly composed in Weimar as early as 1713. [2] The text of the cantata, which echoes theologians in Halle, suggests that it was composed with Halle's Liebfrauenkirche in mind, in 1713, when Bach applied to be organist of this church, or in 1716, when he was involved in rebuilding its organ.