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See Christmas Cantatas Georg Philipp Telemann: [56] Was gleicht dem Adel wahrer Christen, TWV 1:1511 (Harmonischer Gottes-Dienst, Hamburg 1726) Christoph Graupner: see List of cantatas by Christoph Graupner § GWV 1108; Johann Sebastian Bach (see also Church cantata (Bach) § Christmas I): [46] Tritt auf die Glaubensbahn, BWV 152 (30 December 1714)
A Christmas cantata or Nativity cantata is a cantata, ... Later composers also set free text, poems and carols. ... Georg Christian Lehms: 1725:
Bach chose a text by Georg Christian Lehms, who was inspired by the epistle. [3] The final movement is a setting of the final stanza of "Lobt Gott, ihr Christen alle gleich", a Christmas carol with words and melody by Nikolaus Herman published in 1560. [4] Bach first performed the cantata on 27 December 1725.
The Christmas Oratorio (German: Weihnachtsoratorium), BWV 248, is an oratorio by Johann Sebastian Bach intended for performance in church during the Christmas season.It is in six parts, each part a cantata intended for performance in a church service on a feast day of the Christmas period.
A Christmas Cantata (Honegger) Christmas Oratorio; Christum wir sollen loben schon, BWV 121; D. Darzu ist erschienen der Sohn Gottes, BWV 40; Dies Natalis (cantata) E.
Bach composed the cantata in his third year as Thomaskantor in Leipzig for Christmas Day, the first day of a Christmas celebration which lasted for three days. [1] The prescribed readings for the feast day were from the Epistle of Titus, "God's mercy appeared" (Titus 2:11–14) or from Isaiah, "Unto us a child is born" (Isaiah 9:2–7), and from the Gospel of Luke, the Nativity, Annunciation ...
The duration of the cantata is given as 20 minutes. [9] Bach would later use the pair of horns in Part IV of his Christmas Oratorio. [10] In the following table of the movements, the scoring, keys and time signatures are taken from Alfred Dürr's standard work Die Kantaten von Johann Sebastian Bach. [11] The continuo, which plays throughout, is ...
Gloria in excelsis Deo (Glory to God in the Highest), BWV 191, is a church cantata written by the German Baroque composer Johann Sebastian Bach, and the only one of his church cantatas set to a Latin text. He composed the Christmas cantata in Leipzig probably in 1742, for a celebration by the university of Leipzig.