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Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme ('Awake, calls the voice to us'), [1] BWV 140, also known as Sleepers Awake, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach, regarded as one of his most mature and popular sacred cantatas. He composed the chorale cantata in Leipzig for the 27th Sunday after Trinity and first performed it on 25 November 1731.
Norwegian-American composer F. Melius Christiansen composed a famous a capella choral arrangement of the hymn in 1925, titled "Wake, Awake" in English. Hugo Distler composed an organ partita based on the hymn in 1935 (Op. 8/2). The following example is the final movement of Bach's cantata, a four-part setting of the final stanza:
The quoted closing chorale from J. S. Bach's cantata The final stanza, "Gloria sei dir gesungen" (Gloria be sung to you) is again structured in three sections. It opens with an extended "anthem-like" [ 2 ] treatment, followed by a quotation of the complete closing choral chorale from his father's cantata Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme , as a ...
"Sleepers Awake", English name for the hymn "Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme" (1599) by Philipp Nicolai "Sleepers awake", English name for the chorale cantata Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 140 (1731), by Johann Sebastian Bach, based on Nicolai's hymn; The Sleeper Awakes (1910), dystopian novel by H. G. Wells about a man who sleeps for ...
The eldest known cantata by Bach, an early version of Christ lag in Todes Banden, BWV 4, presumably written in 1707, was a chorale cantata. The last chorale cantata he wrote in his second year in Leipzig was Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, BWV 1, first performed on Palm Sunday, 25 March 1725. In the ten years after that he wrote at least a ...
Blues on Bach is an album by American jazz group the Modern Jazz Quartet recorded in 1973 and released on the Atlantic label. [4] The album includes five arrangements by John Lewis of pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach, interspersed with four original blues pieces "on" [the name] "Bach"—in keys (and with titles) that spell out in order the name B-A-C-H.
The following is a list of church cantatas, sorted by the liturgical occasion for which they were composed and performed.The genre was particularly popular in 18th-century Lutheran Germany, although there are later examples.
Bach's earliest cantatas are church cantatas, although his early Wedding Quodlibet is sometimes grouped with the secular cantatas. [11] [12] The oldest extant secular cantata is from his Weimar period where he composed the Hunting Cantata (BWV 208, first version) for the birthday of Christian, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels on 23 February 1713.