In 1860 he wrote two cantatas and commenced a musical drama called "Goethe's Jugendzeit," which was never finished.
The Royal Palace of Charlottenburg was prepared for his reception The students of the Academy escorted him with bands of music, cannon were fired, poems read, cantatas sung; and the King created him councillor of state.
These compositions are of every sort, but cantatas form the larger portion, consisting of passages of Scripture set in consecutive form, with due alternation of solo and chorus, in a style at once pleasing and dramatically appropriate.
He early commenced to write cantatas and motettes for the seminary, of which he was a member, all of which show traces of the Italian influences.
Within the next seventeen years he produced twenty-four operas, besides a large number of cantatasand other works.
Besides these he composed several cantatas for church use, and several instrumental pieces.
In the church there were masses by Beethoven and Cherubini, motettes by Palestrina, and cantatas by Bach.
Another descendant of Veit Bach, Johann Ludwig, was admired more than any other ancestor by Sebastian, who copied twelve of his churchcantatas and sometimes added work of his own to them.
Of the solo cantatastwo are Italian (one of these being Bach's only developed work for voice and clavier) and two are burlesque.
Not more than six or seven cantatas are known to be lost, by the evidence of fragments, text-books, &c.
Except for practical difficulties (as when Bach writes for obsolete instruments) the only reason why some cantatas are better known than others is that a beginning must be made somewhere.
Finishing touches to cantatasby his uncle Johann Ludwig Bach.
Four absurd church cantatas are printed for conscience' sake in Jahrgang xliii.
The following is the result of a survey of the cantatasand their component parts (Anh.
Ziegler~, Christiane Mariane von, who wrote words for some of the cantatas was born in 1695 at Leipsic.
Sometimes used to accompany secular cantatas instead of the clavecin.
The most beautiful and deeply religious of his church cantatas were a sinful abomination in the eyes of the Pietists.
But that Bach did not merely work on a fixed model is shown by the fact that no two of the one hundred and ninety cantatas published by the Bachgesellschaft are alike.
Here there was no Evangelist, nor were words of the Scripture introduced, but threecantatas or soliloquies, similar to dramatic scenes, took an important place.
Most of the cantatas are constructed in the same kind of way, i.
In itself, the more weighty occasion stirred him to deeper reflexion, and the Dirge for Queen Christine Eberhardine is of more value than all his secular cantatas put together.
After 1735 Bach was content to relax somewhat, and he employed his time, less in composing newcantatas or the like, than in revising, solidifying, and balancing his earlier works.
Among the cantatas there stands a composition of a partly different character.
The following sevencantatas are all that remain:--1.
Yet, it must be confessed that the church cantatas suffer exceedingly from the poverty of the texts to which they are written.
It is in the choruses, however, that the Leipzig cantatas rise above the works of Bach's earlier time.
His church cantatas are among the earliest and the most mature of Bach's productions; but the bulk of them were written while he was cantor at Leipzig.
His works were doubtless performed, more or less frequently; but cantatas and motets were required for the church service, and it was easier to fall back upon the stores of music he had left, than to buy or transcribe new pieces.
The list of Bach's secular cantatas is completed by some wedding-music,[47] and by the pieces he wrote for state occasions.
The essential point, however, in Bach's church cantatas is that they formed part of a church service, and moreover of a service in which the organization of the music was far more coherent than is possible in the Anglican church.
Many of Bach's greatest cantatas begin with an elaborate chorus followed by a couple of arias and recitatives, and end with a plain chorale.
This is equally evident whether we examine the unparalleled church cantatas of Bach, of which nearly 200 are extant, or the Chandos Anthems of Handel.
Many numbers of these cantatas would disturb us today in church; on the other hand we consider them exquisite religious parlor music--which they were far from being in Bach's day.
Bach is much more shrilly and characteristically dramatic in his church cantatas than contemporary masters of Italian opera.
Händel's operas seem to us concert-like; the arias of Bach's church cantatas often appear operatic.
Besides operas, she produced several cantatas and other choral works, and a number of concertos, sonatas, and pieces for the piano.
Her cantatas show unusual breadth of style, and their largeness of spirit wins them great favour.
She has written a piano quintette and a string quartette, besides short cantatas and the usual lesser pieces for violin, piano, and voice.
This accounts for the prevalence of cantatas in the English musical repertoire.
In drawing such a parallel, and observing the greater variety of style in Haendel, we must remember that Bach's cantatas are church music.
The choruses of Bach's cantataswould furnish a field for endless study.
Bach wrote five series of cantatas for the Sundays and festal days of the church year--in all two hundred and ninety-five.
The performance of Bach's cantatas by the Catholic Schola Cantorum of Paris is one of many testimonies to the universality of the art of this son of Lutheranism.
But out of this decadence, if we call it such, came the cantatas and Passions of J.
Such cantatas are rare, and the use of the choral became more prominent and systematic in Bach's work as time went on.
This theme is struck in the cantatas more frequently than almost any other.
There are many arias in his cantatas in which the musical expression is not only beautiful and touching in the highest degree, but also yields with wonderful truth to every mutation of feeling in the text.
Cantatas and Passions were no longer heard in church worship.
One of his cantatas is scored for three flutes, three oboes, two violins, one viola, a bassoon, and a chorus in six parts.
The "Crusaders" still belongs to the standard cantatas of the present day.
Carpenter, besides twocantatas for mixed voices, "Phoenix Expirans" and "The Pilgrims.
What interested me most was his exceptionally large, or even, if I remember rightly, complete collection of Sebastian Bach's cantatas in most excellent copies.
One of the concertmaster’s duties was to provide cantatas for a variety of occasions and, beginning in 1714, he wrote a number of them.
It was the only one of Bach’s cantatasprinted in his lifetime.
Such cantatas as he wrote in Cöthen were secular ones, chiefly in honor of his employer.
Bach was hurt and further embittered by the fact that no more cantatas of his composition were being ordered, and his notorious temper speedily got the better of him.
The Church Cantatas were divided between his elder sons after their composer's death.
But the publication of the Cantatas proceeded slowly.
That Bach should have turned to Lutheran hymnody, chiefly of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and that the Cantatas built upon it should be his most perfect religious work is not surprising.
For both Cantatas Bach employed a librettist, otherwise little known, named Johann Friedrich Helbig, State Secretory to the Eisenach Court.
The theory accords with the suggestion that all three Cantatasbelong to the Muehlhausen period.
Schiller's Votiftafeln 327 The Cantatas are classified under Appendix II.
He practised them so hard in Cantatas for single and double chorus that they became excellent singers.
Here by far the greater number of his Cantatas appeared, and 172 of them survive.
Both cantatas were then included in the Complete Works of Beethoven published by Breitkopf and Haertel.
The two cantatas mark the culmination of Beethoven's creative labors in Bonn; they show his artistic individuality ripened and a sovereign command of all the elements which Bonn was able to teach him from a technical point of view.
Such an assertion is less likely to be made now than before the discovery of the two Imperial cantatas of 1790.
I have now a favour to ask of you, dear Father, in reference to thecantatas of Sebastian Bach, which Zelter possessed.
I beg you will send me for him, as a token of my gratitude, the six cantatas of Sebastian Bach, published by Marx at Simrock's, or some of his pieces for the organ.
These cantatas frequently opened with orchestral introduction followed by a chorus, usually very impressive, and imbued with the meaning of the text.
How innate and healthy was his genius may be inferred from the fact that for these musical services alone three hundred eighty cantatas seem to have been composed.
There is an anthem every Sunday, a choral communion once a month, offertory sentences on alternate Sundays, cantatasand oratorios at Festivals.
These cantatas were short oratorios consisting of choruses, solos, recitatives, instrumental movements, and were frequently of considerable elaboration.
He here wrote an enormous amount of church music, consisting of a very large number of cantatas for church service, of which first and last he seems to have produced five entire series for every festival Sunday in the year.
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