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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 ...
Der Himmel lacht! Die Erde jubilieret, BWV 31 (Weimar version 21 April 1715; Leipzig version 9 April 1724 and 25 March 1731) [33] Kommt, eilet und laufet, BWV 249 (1 April 1725: first version of the Easter Oratorio, then still a cantata BDW 00317) Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel: [15] Ich war tot und siehe ich bin lebendig, H. 325 [85] [86] [129]
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 ...
"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 ...
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.