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A Christmas cantata outside the classical music tradition was the 1986 project The Animals' Christmas by Jimmy Webb and Art Garfunkel. In 1995, Bruckner's Fest-Kantate Preiset den Herrn, WAB 16, has undergone an adaptation as Festkantate zur Weihnacht (festive Christmas cantata) for mixed choir with Herbert Vogg’s text "Ehre sei Gott in der ...
Bach composed the cantata in his second year in Leipzig for the Second Day of Christmas as part of his second cantata cycle. [2] [3] The prescribed readings for the feast day were from the Epistle to Titus (Titus 3:4–7), and the Gospel of Luke (Luke 2:15–20), [3] [4] of the shepherds at the manger.
The cantata is often presented in concerts that usually combine several of the parts of the Christmas Oratorio, most frequently parts I to III. It is a Christmas tradition for German-speaking people to attend such a concert. [41] Dürr and Jones described the cantata as "one of the pinnacles of world music literature". [19]
The cantata has a festive character but lacks certain features typically associated with Christmas music, such as Pastoral music, angels' song and cradle song, even a Christmas carol or chorale, [2] as Gardiner words it: "The cantata contains none of the usual Nativity themes: no cradle song, no music for the shepherds or for the angels, not ...
Und es waren Hirten in derselben Gegend ("And there were shepherds in the same environs"), [1] BWV 248 II (also written as BWV 248 II), [2] is a 1734 Christmas cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach as the second part of his Christmas Oratorio. Bach was then Thomaskantor, responsible for music at four churches in Leipzig, a position he had assumed in ...
Süßer Trost, mein Jesus kömmt (Sweet comfort, my Jesus comes), BWV 151, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed it in Leipzig for the third day of Christmas and first performed it on 27 December 1725.
Ehre sei dir, Gott, gesungen (Let honour be sung to You, O God), [1] BWV 248 V (also written as BWV 248 V), is a church cantata for the second Sunday after Christmas, which Johann Sebastian Bach composed as the fifth part of his Christmas Oratorio, written for the Christmas season of 1734–35 in Leipzig. [2]
The Christmas cantata was first performed in 1734, in Leipzig. [2] Bach was then Thomaskantor, responsible for music at four churches in Leipzig, a position he had assumed in 1723. The cantata follows the nativity of Jesus as narrated in the Gospel of Luke. It covers the adoration of the shepherds.