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  2. Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 140 - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (J. C. F. Bach) - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Church cantata (Bach) - Wikipedia

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    The other cantata Bach composed for the combined occasion was the last chorale cantata written in his second year in ... Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 140 [a] ...

  6. Lutheran chorale - Wikipedia

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    The third stanza of the eponymous chorale in Johann Sebastian Bach's setting as the final movement of his chorale cantata Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 140. A Lutheran chorale is a musical setting of a Lutheran hymn, intended to be sung by a congregation in a German Protestant church service.

  7. Schübler Chorales - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Late church cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach - Wikipedia

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    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]

  9. Chorale cantata cycle - Wikipedia

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    Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 140, composed for Trinity XXVII 1731: there had not been a Trinity XXVII Sunday in 1724. All six of these chorale cantatas remained in the chorale cantata cycle kept at St. Thomas. [4]