Bach church cantatas bwv 77 du sollt gott, deinen herren. Most of the translations are located at the bcw, but links to other translations over the web are provided as well. Bach, johann sebastian the complete cantatas, chorales and. Such webpages contain links to various primary sources, including early manuscripts e. He composed the chorale cantata in leipzig for the 27th sunday after trinity and first performed it on 25 november 1731. Bach s autographs when extant, and the cantata text. Thus, bachs treatment of a particular tune can be studied exhaustively. The lesson and gospel passage for this day are closely related. Bach s cantatas and his other vocal works and many of his instrumental works. This cantata was the second in bachs 1724 series of chorale cantatas. Presented through the generosity and vision of the kohn foundation. Bach cantatas the celebrated royal academy of musickohn foundation bach cantata series. The story of bach s cantatas begins with his first employment at the age of 18, in august of 1703, when he was appointed organist to the new church in arnstadt having recently dazzled the congregation with his brilliant performance at the dedication of their new organ.
As far as is known, johann sebastian bach s earliest surviving cantatas. Richters devotion, on both counts, is amply manifested in this classic and nowaffordable collection of 75 sacred cantatasthe cream of the crop, you might say, among the 200 works in this genre that have come down to us as bachs most substantial single ouvre. Chorales later attributed to bach 9 chorales the purpose of bach is to provide a wide array of resources for the study and enjoyment of the bach chorales. This is a sortable list of the bach cantatas, the cantatas of johann sebastian bach. Weekly cantata a weekly guide to bach cantatas according.
See the johann sebastian bachs works list for more details. Dont miss the royal academy of musics outstanding sunday lunchtime series surveying all of bachs cantatas the times view our pdf brochure of the 2018. An indispensable reference book for anyone listening to, performing, or studying any of the bach cantatas. Emmanuel music is a bostonbased ensemble of singers and instrumentalists founded in 1970 by craig smith to perform the complete sacred cantatas of j. The task of identifying the proper attribution and provenance of chorale texts and especially tunes is particularly difficult, and where. I am working my way through all known bach cantatas and i think the throw away hypothesis bach wrote some bad cantatas will be never be proven. Bach s early cantatas are choralkonzerte chorale concertos in the style of the 17th century, different from the recitative and aria cantata format associated with neumeister that bach started to use for church cantatas in 1714. Cantatas bwv 150 cantatas bwv 51100 cantatas bwv 101150 cantatas bwv 151200 cantatas bwv 201224 scores of other vocal works. Provides a commentary on most of the sacred cantatas together with a lectionary. A numeracao deles precede com a letra z, como referencia ao sobrenome deles, zwang. Since all but a few of the cantatas are published only with german texts, it has seemed advisable to provide an appendix of translations of the hymn stanzas, upwards of two hundred and fifty in number, which bach uses in the cantatas and motetts.
Books by stephen daw the music of johann sebastian bach. Bachs early cantatas are choralkonzerte chorale concertos in the style of the 17th century, different from the recitative and aria cantata format associated with neumeister that bach started to use for church cantatas in 1714. Devotion to bach, to be sure, but also to the religious verities that richter would have affirmed as a lutheran church musician. Weekly cantata a weekly guide to bach cantatas according to. Bach for bach, the fugue is a noncanonic imitative piece bach makes the points of imitation shorter, and all based on the same theme monothematic and most importantly sets these statements apart from each other with free contrapuntal episodes.
He most probably intended for the first four cantatas in that series to form a set, or at least to present some kind of order, if you look at the composition form of the opening movement, and which voice has the cantus firmus of the chorale tune in that chorus. The story of bachs cantatas begins with his first employment at the age of 18, in august of 1703, when he was appointed organist to the new church in arnstadt having recently dazzled the congregation with his. The altbachisches archiv, a collection of 17thcentury vocal works, mostly by members of the bach family, initiated by bachs father johann ambrosius, contained. J s bach cantata wir danken dir, gott, wir danken dir. This file contains additional information such as exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. An analytical guide london, 1989 make modest contributions to the literature on the bach cantatas, but neither has durrs command of both the music and the scholarly industry swirling around it. The interactive and extensive reference for all of johann sebastian bachs cantatas. The site is designed to benefit musicians, music theorists, historians, choral conductors, composers, teachers, students, and amateur. A small but valuable guide to the best in the cantatas.
Bachs autographs when extant, and the cantata text. These other sources include the bach gesellschaft ausgabe bga, the bach compendium bc, the invaluable. Marshall, alfred durr, robin leaver, among many others. The bach cantata choir publishes the bachbeat newsletter, with background information regarding. It includes all the cantata libretti in germanenglish parallel text. Cantatas by johann sebastian bach wikimedia commons. This special edition exclusively offers the authoritative text of the new bach edition meeting barenreiter urtext standards.
Media in category cantatas by johann sebastian bach the following 4 files are in this category, out of 4 total. Emmanuel music continues to perform cycles of largescale and chamber works by bach, handel, mozart, schubert, brahms, debussy, haydn, schoenberg, weill, wolf, medelssohn, and schumann under artistic director ryan turner. A workbywork commentary on the bach cantatas by one of the worlds most famous bach scholars, now available in english and in paperback for the first time. Bach the bach cantata in 1700, erdmann neumeister 16711756, a theologian and poet, created a new type of sacred work. This is long out of print but is widely available in libraries and does turn up second hand. This disc is the 37th in the complete bach canata edition undertaken by japanese historicalperformance specialist masaaki suzuki, whose precisely sensuous renderings of the cantatas have found favor with a wide variety of listeners.
Bachkantaten consist of at least 209 surviving works. Although the german term bachkantate bach cantata became very familiar, bach himself rarely used the title cantata in his manuscripts. Available on the app store for iphone, ipad and android. In line with suzukis concentration on the sheer surface beauties of bachs music, his cantatas tend to be grouped according to purely musical considerations. Johann sebastian bach was a prolific german composer and organist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity. Richters devotion, on both counts, is amply manifested in this classic and nowaffordable collection of 75 sacred cantatas the cream of the crop, you might say, among the 200 works in this genre that have come down to us as bach s most substantial single ouvre. The bach cantatas website bcw is a comprehensive site covering all aspects of j. Cantatas and sacred music bwv 1249 plus the 371 4part chorales bwv 253438, plus 3 wedding chorales bwv 250252, arie and lieder not fugal pieces, bwv 439524, orchestral music bwv 1041106971. Bach planned four years of cantatas, but only completed two years worth around 120 multimovement cantatas the high baroque j. Bach, johann sebastian the complete cantatas, chorales. I am though very greedy and wish the lost cantatas would show up in some austrian university vault or a trunk in someones attic in leipzig maybe. Festival music for the houses of weimar, weissenfels and kothen. Aug 19, 2017 i am working my way through all known bach cantatas and i think the throw away hypothesis bach wrote some bad cantatas will be never be proven. Bach, johann sebastian church cantatas bwv 77 du sollt gott, deinen herren, lieben sheet music for choir.