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  2. Chorale cantata (Bach) - Wikipedia

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    Before Bach chorale cantatas, that is, cantatas entirely based on both the text and the melody of a single Lutheran hymn, had been composed by among others Samuel Scheidt, Johann Erasmus Kindermann, Johann Pachelbel and Dieterich Buxtehude. Sebastian Knüpfer, Johann Schelle and Johann Kuhnau, Bach's predecessors as Thomaskantor, had composed them.

  3. Chorale cantata cycle - Wikipedia

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    Johann Sebastian Bach's chorale cantata cycle is the year-cycle of church cantatas he started composing in Leipzig from the first Sunday after Trinity in 1724. It followed the cantata cycle he had composed from his appointment as Thomaskantor after Trinity in 1723.

  4. Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 140 - Wikipedia

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    The first movement, "Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme" ("Awake", we are called by the voice [of the watchmen]), [6] is a chorale fantasia based on the first verse of the hymn, a common feature of Bach's earlier chorale cantatas. [14] The cantus firmus is sung by the soprano.

  5. Chorale cantata - Wikipedia

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    A chorale cantata is a church cantata based on a chorale—in this context a Lutheran chorale. It is principally from the German Baroque era. The organizing principle is the words and music of a Lutheran hymn. Usually a chorale cantata includes multiple movements or parts. Most chorale cantatas were written between approximately 1650 and 1750.

  6. Bach cantata - Wikipedia

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    The new cantatas Bach composed for Easter of 1725 and afterwards were not chorale cantatas: 1725: BWV 249, early version (later versions known as the Easter Oratorio but the 1725 version was a cantata) * 6 * 42 * 85 * 103 * 108 * 87 * 128 * 183 * 74 * 68 * 175 * 176

  7. Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring - Wikipedia

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    "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" is the popular English title of the chorale from the 1723 Advent cantata Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben (Heart and Mouth and Deed and Life), BWV 147, by Johann Sebastian Bach. The chorale occurs twice in the cantata, with different texts each time (neither of which matches the English): as its sixth movement, Wohl ...

  8. List of Bach cantatas - Wikipedia

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    In his first year there, starting after Trinity, Bach regularly composed a new cantata every week in his Bach's first cantata cycle. The following year, he followed the format, now basing each cantata on a Lutheran hymn in the chorale cantata cycle .

  9. Allein zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 33 - Wikipedia

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    Allein zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ BWV 33 Chorale cantata by J. S. Bach St. Thomas Church, Leipzig Occasion 13th Sunday after Trinity Chorale " Allein zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ by Konrad Hubert Performed 3 September 1724 (1724-09-03): Leipzig Movements six Vocal SATB choir solo: alto, tenor and bass Instrumental 2 oboes 2 violins viola continuo Johann Sebastian Bach composed the church cantata ...