The cantata opens with a joyous sailors' chorus and the lament of the mothers and wives as the seamen weigh anchor and set sail.
The cantata is almost equally divided between male and female choruses, and these are the charm of the work.
The cantata "Davidde Penitente" was the outcome of a work of love.
King Rene's Daughter," a cantata for female voices only, the poem by Frederick Enoch, was written in 1871.
After the death of Pergolesi, Sarti and Paisiello made an attempt to revive it, and in so doing prepared the way for the cantata in its beautiful modern form.
The text of the cantata is Longfellow's "Skeleton in Armor," that weird and stirring story of the Viking, which the poet so ingeniously connected with the old mill at Newport.
The music of thecantata is divided into ten numbers, which are characterized by exquisite refinement and artistic taste.
A littlecantata for two voices was also evidently composed for this Lent.
The cantata begins at once with a Recitative for the Soul: Meines Jesu gottlichs Herz Das reget sich nicht mehr, Und ist von Blut und Leben leer.
This Cantata embodied the romantic story of the warrior king in captivity, being discovered by the minstrel Blondel, who at last caused the liberation of the monarch.
These are great names, but the construction of the older works is entirely different from the Cantata now performed for the first time with great applause.
The progress of the Cantata from the time when it first presented itself to his mind to the time when he completed it, may be traced in the letters to Bayard Taylor and Gibson Peacock, which have already been published.
To this letter Lanier replied: "If it were a cantata upon your goodness, .
Lanier's Cantataappeared in one of the daily journals, prematurely.
At Bayard Taylor's suggestion he was appointed by the Centennial Commission to write the words for a cantata to be sung at the opening exercises of the exposition in Philadelphia.
The most important thing, however, about the writing of the Cantata was that it gave expression to a strong faith in the nation as felt by one who had been a Confederate soldier.
From this point of view the Cantata must be judged.
That the Cantata was a success is borne out by contemporary evidence.
The commotion about the Cantata has not been unfavorable, on the whole, to my personal interests.
Jackson, pastor of Allen Temple, himself an excellent singer, a few weeks ago organized a select choir for the purpose of rendering the cantata just mentioned.
This society promises to give the cantata "Esther.
In July, 1875, this society gave a public performance, in costume, of thecantata of "Daniel.
He studied at the Paris Conservatoire, where he obtained the Grand Prix de Rome in 1863 with the cantata David Rizzio.
He seemed in fact to have totally forgotten the Cantata in question.
On account of several difficult passages for the wind instruments, which the performers declared themselves unable to play, this Cantata was laid aside and not published.
This Cantatawas performed, together with the Battle of Vittoria and the A major Symphony, on the 29th of November, in the presence of the foreign sovereigns, some of whom made handsome presents to the composer.
The "Cantata on the Death of Joseph the Second, composed by L.
The text of thecantata was written by Severin Anton Averdonk, son of an employee of the electoral Bureau of Accounts, and brother of the court singer Johanna Helene Averdonk, who, in her youth, was for a space a pupil of Johann van Beethoven.
The electoral orchestra gave him a breakfast at Godesberg and there Beethoven laid before him a cantata "which received the particular attention of Haydn, who encouraged its author to continue study.
There have been a few performances of this cantata in Austria and Germany since its publication.
The minutes of the last meeting for preparation, held on March 17, state that "for various reasons the proposed cantata cannot be performed.
Louis composed a funeral cantata to his memory--his first composition.
The same thing may be said of the "Cantata on the Elevation of Leopold II to the Imperial Dignity, composed by L.
Heap that I was asked to write a cantatafor the Staffordshire Musical Festival, and, shortly after, the committee asked me to provide an oratorio for the Worcester Festival.
I want the score of the Cantata for a few days, as I wish to write a kind of recitative for it; mine is so torn that I cannot put it together, so I must have it written out from the parts.
Footnote 107: The favorable comment excited a few years ago by the cantata "Hiawatha" by S.
Some interesting passages for flute and oboe in combination with low clarinet arpeggio effects are contained in the cantata "The Story of Sayid.
His works are among the most important contributions to the literature of English music, covering as they do every branch of music from opera, oratorio andcantata to symphony, chamber music and sacred pieces.
The Festival Cantatawas performed on May 31st (June 12th) at the opening of the Polytechnic Exhibition, and shortly afterwards Tchaikovsky left Moscow for Kamenka, where he spent the whole of June.
The manuscript of this cantata is in the archives of the St. Petersburg Conservatoire.
Before my turn came they sang a wearisome cantata by Schütz, The Seven Words.
In November of this year, Tchaikovsky set to work upon a cantata for chorus and orchestra, a setting of Schiller's Ode to Joy.
I hear the Cantatawas admirably sung and won the Emperor's approval.
In spite of this official success, the cantata did not win the approval of the musical authorities.
Apparently the young composer had given sufficient proof of his knowledge in the cantata itself, and he received not only his diploma, but a silver medal in addition.
A report has been circulated in many of the Paris papers that Rubinstein had refused to compose a Coronation Cantata because he was not in sympathy with the central figure of the festivities.
On this occasion he was well beforehand with the work, and sent in the cantata to the committee by the 1st of April.
I remember the disappointment with which Sullivan's cantata "Kenilworth" was received at the Festival of 1867.
The then young composer had made such a very "palpable hit" by his "Tempest" music that great things were expected from the new cantata he composed for Birmingham.
In the evening the cantata was repeated by the same choir in the Thomaskirche; and after the sermon the Hymn of the Virgin was sung, set in its Latin form, and in an elaborate style.
It is clear from Spohr's remarks that he was satisfied with the choruses and fugues, but not with the solo parts of Jesus and Mary, which were in the florid cantata style of that day.
The cantata character is more conspicuous here than in the first three sections, and the specially Christmas feeling resides more in the general tone of the music than in the chorales.
It is also claimed that he was the first to introduce the cantata as a form of church music, and the accompaniment of violins in motet performances.
His cantata Alger was heard at the Paris opera in 1865.
I found myself so cheerful that I went all the way singing; I even remember I sang a cantata of Batistin's called the Baths of Thomery, which I knew by heart.
He conducted me into a chamber, where I found a great quantity of music: he gave me some to copy, particularly the cantata he had heard me singing, and which he was shortly to sing himself.
Meanwhile I had been thinking of a grand divertissement, or rather a cantata depicting peasant nuptials.
The entire atmosphere of the cantata is really Ossianic: the maiden lamenting on a desert rock surrounded by the wild ocean: Mit fliegendem Haare!
The influence is visible also in occasional touches in the cantata Ariadne auf Naxos (1765), for example when Ariadne sings: Wie weint' ich heimlich Freudenthraenen!
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