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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.
Johann Sebastian Bach based his chorale cantata Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 140, on the hymn [12] and derived one of the Schübler Chorales, BWV 645, from the cantata's central movement. His son Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach wrote a cantata for a four-part choir, Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme.
Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (Wake, o wake and hear the voices), Wf XV:2, is a German chorale motet composed around 1780 by Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, a son of Johann Sebastian Bach. It is based on Philipp Nicolai's hymn "Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme". The motet in E-flat major is written for a four-part choir. It is structured in ...
No further cantatas performed on Sundays after Trinity are known for the period 1730–49, until the 27th and last possible Sunday after Trinity: on that Sunday in 1731 Bach premiered Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 140, a late addition to the chorale cantata cycle. [55]
2 – Chorale cantata cycle. BWV 140 is a later addition to the chorale cantata cycle; 5 – Other and/or later: Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 140 [a] (25 November 1731, chorale cantata added to the chorale cantata cycle)
Cantata Wohl dem, der sich auf seinen Gott (Trinity XXIII) E maj. satbSATB 2Oba Str Bc 28: 223: I/26: 97 after Z 2383; text after Rube 00171: 140 1. 1731-11-25 Cantata Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (Trinity XXVII) E♭ maj. stbSATB Hn 2Ob Tai Vl Str Bc 28: 249: I/27: 149 after Z 8405a, text after Nicolai; /4 → BWV 645: 00172: 140/7
The chorale prelude is a transcription of "Zion hört die Wächter singen" ("Zion hears the watchmen sing"), [15] the 4th movement of the cantata Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 140, which is a chorale for tenor voice accompanied by unison strings and continuo.
It is sortable by the cantata number which equals the number in the Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis ... 140: Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 140: Trinity XXVII: 1731: