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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:
"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 ...
Magnificat, BWV 243a (early version without Christmas interpolations possibly first performed on 2 July 1723) Meine Seel erhebt den Herren, BWV 10 (chorale cantata: 1724) Meine Seele erhebet den Herrn (cantata text by an unknown librettist without extant composition by Bach: 2 July 1725, BDW 01672) [211]
The late church cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach are sacred cantatas he composed after his fourth cycle of 1728–29. Whether Bach still composed a full cantata cycle in the last 20 years of his life is not known, but the extant cantatas of this period written for occasions of the liturgical year are sometimes referred to as his fifth cycle, as, according to his obituary, he would have ...
Bach's Nekrolog mentions five cantata cycles: "Fünf Jahrgänge von Kirchenstücken, auf alle Sonn- und Festtage" (Five year-cycles of pieces for the church, for all Sundays and feast days), [1] which would amount to at least 275 cantatas, [2] or over 320 if all cycles would have been ideal cycles. [3]
A church cantata or sacred cantata is a cantata intended to be performed during Christian liturgy. The genre was particularly popular in 18th-century Lutheran Germany, with many composers writing an extensive output: Stölzel , Telemann , Graupner and Krieger each wrote nearly or more than a thousand.
In the United Kingdom, it has been published under the title of the original novella, Cantata 140, published in the July 1964 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. [1] This original title refers to the short title in English, Sleepers Awake , of J.S. Bach 's Cantata BWV 140 and the novel's 'bibs', the millions sleeping in ...