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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 election or inauguration of a new town council was celebrated with a service. Normally this was an annual event. The cantata written for such celebrations were indicated with the term Ratswechsel (changing of the council) or Ratswahl (election of the council). In Mühlhausen the celebration was held on 4 February:
"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 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.
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 ...
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 ...
A chorale cantata is a church cantata based on a single hymn, both its text and tune. Bach was not the first to compose them, but for his 1724-25 second Leipzig cantata cycle he developed a specific format: in this format the opening movement is a chorale fantasia on the first stanza of the hymn, with the hymn tune appearing as a cantus firmus.