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Diane Meredith Belcher is an American concert organist, teacher, and church musician. [1] She has given a large number of solo recitals throughout the United States and abroad, is a teacher, and has served as Director of Music at Bach Vespers/Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in New York City, Lecturer in Music Theory and Organ at Dartmouth College, [2] in Hanover, New Hampshire, Music Director at ...
O heilges Geist- und Wasserbad (O holy bath of Spirit and water [a]), BWV 165, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach.He composed it in Weimar for Trinity Sunday and led the first performance on 16 June 1715.
Bach composed the cantata in Leipzig for the 27th Sunday after Trinity. [4] This Sunday occurs only when Easter is early. [5] The prescribed readings for the Sunday were from the First Epistle to the Thessalonians, be prepared for the day of the Lord (1 Thessalonians 5:1–11), and from the Gospel of Matthew, the parable of the Ten Virgins (Matthew 25:1–13).
For the occasions from Easter to Trinity, he composed no chorale cantatas based exclusively on one hymn, but wrote a few of them in later years, such as Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 140, for the 28th Sunday after Trinity which had not occurred in 1724. Bach's second (Leipzig) cantata cycle consists of cantatas first performed from 11 ...
The congregation was founded in 1868 after splitting from St. James's Lutheran Church. Most New York Lutherans were German in the nineteenth century, and "Holy Trinity was one of a very few English-speaking Lutheran congregations. The first church was at 47 West 21st Street, in the edifice originally built for St. Paul's Reformed Dutch Church." [3]
The earliest documentary traces of Bach's involvement with the concerto genre include: In 1709 Bach helped copy out the performance parts of a concerto by Georg Philipp Telemann [2] Around 1710 or earlier Bach copied the continuo part, BWV Anh. 23, of a concerto included in Tomaso Albinoni's Op. 2, which had been published in 1700. [3] [4]
Bach's second year in Leipzig passed without composing a chorale cantata specifically for the fourth Sunday after Trinity. He composed one for this occasion in 1732, Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 177, one of the later additions to the chorale cantata cycle. [52] Also for Trinity VI Bach composed a chorale cantata at a later date (BWV 9).
[2] [3] [4] That year, Bach composed a cycle of chorale cantatas, begun on the first Sunday after Trinity of 1724. [ 2 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The prescribed readings for the Sunday were from the Epistle to the Philippians , thanks and prayer for the congregation in Philippi ( Philippians 1:3–11 ), and from the Gospel of Matthew , the parable of the ...