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1726 In Music
The year 1726 in music involved some significant events. Events *May 5 – French dancer Marie de Camargo made her debut at the Paris Opera Ballet in ''Les Caractères de la Danse''. *October 26 – Women are allowed to be employed at the Kungliga Hovkapellet in Sweden. *The Academy of Ancient Music (formerly the Academy of Vocal Music) is founded in London. * George Frideric Handel becomes a British subject. *Johann Sebastian Bach copies and performs 18 church cantatas written by his cousin, Johann Ludwig Bach. Classical music *William Babell – ''6 Concertos in 7 Parts'', Op. 3 *Johann Ludwig Bach – '' Ja, mir hast du Arbeit gemacht'', JLB 5 *Johann Sebastian Bach **'' Meine Seufzer, meine Tränen'', BWV 13 **'' Es erhub sich ein Streit'', BWV 19 **''Liebster Jesu, mein Verlangen'', BWV 32 **'' O ewiges Feuer, o Ursprung der Liebe'', BWV 34a ** ''Geist und Seele wird verwirret'', BWV 35 **''Brich dem Hungrigen dein Brot'', BWV 39 **'' Gott fähret auf mit Jauchzen'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
May 5
Events Pre-1600 * 553 – The Second Council of Constantinople begins. *1215 – Rebel barons renounce their allegiance to King John of England — part of a chain of events leading to the signing of the Magna Carta. *1260 – Kublai Khan becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire. *1494 – On his second voyage to the New World, Christopher Columbus sights Jamaica, landing at Discovery Bay and declares Jamaica the property of the Spanish crown. 1601–1900 *1609 – ''Daimyō'' (Lord) Shimazu Tadatsune of the Satsuma Domain in southern Kyūshū, Japan, completes his successful invasion of the Ryūkyū Kingdom in Okinawa. * 1640 – King Charles I of England dissolves the Short Parliament. *1654 – Cromwell's Act of Grace, aimed at reconciliation with the Scots, proclaimed in Edinburgh. * 1762 – Russia and Prussia sign the Treaty of St. Petersburg. *1789 – In France, the Estates-General convenes for the first time since 1614. *1809 – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gott Fähret Auf Mit Jauchzen, BWV 43
("God goes up with jubilation" or "God has gone up with a shout"), , is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed it in Leipzig for the Feast of the Ascension and first performed it on 30 May 1726. It begins with a quotation from Psalm 47. History and words Bach composed the cantata in his third year in Leipzig for the feast of Ascension. The prescribed readings for the feast day were from the Acts of the Apostles, the prologue and Ascension (), and from the Gospel of Mark, Jesus telling his disciples to preach and baptise, and his Ascension (). The text of the cantata is unusual as it consists mostly of a poem in six stanzas, which forms movements 5 to 10 of the work in 11 movements. The structure is similar to that of cantatas by Bach's cousin Johann Ludwig Bach, court conductor in Meiningen, that Bach performed during 1726: Old Testament quotation, recitative, aria, New Testament quotation, poem, chorale. The first quotation is taken from Psalm 47 () and is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François Couperin
François Couperin (; 10 November 1668 – 11 September 1733) was a French Baroque composer, organist and harpsichordist. He was known as ''Couperin le Grand'' ("Couperin the Great") to distinguish him from other members of the musically talented Couperin family. Life Couperin was born in Paris, into a prominent musical family. His father Charles was organist at the Church of Saint-Gervais in the city, a position previously held by Charles's brother Louis Couperin, the esteemed keyboard virtuoso and composer whose career was cut short by an early death. As a boy François must have received his first music lessons from his father, but Charles died in 1679 leaving the position at Saint-Gervais to his son, a common practice known as ''survivance'' that few churches ignored. With their hands tied, the churchwardens at Saint-Gervais hired Michel Richard Delalande to serve as new organist on the understanding that François would replace him at age 18. However, it is likely Couper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonio Caldara
Antonio Caldara (ca 1670 – 28 December 1736) was an Italian Baroque composer. Life Caldara was born in Venice (exact date unknown), the son of a violinist. He became a chorister at St Mark's in Venice, where he learned several instruments, probably under the instruction of Giovanni Legrenzi. In 1699 he relocated to Mantua, where he became '' maestro di cappella'' to the inept Charles IV, Duke of Mantua, a pensionary of France with a French wife, who took the French side in the War of the Spanish Succession. Caldara removed from Mantua in 1707, after the French were expelled from Italy, then moved on to Barcelona as chamber composer to Charles III, the pretender to the Spanish throne (following the death of Charles II of Spain in 1700 without any direct heir) and who kept a royal court at Barcelona. There, he wrote some operas that are the first Italian operas performed in Spain. He moved on to Rome, becoming ''maestro di cappella'' to Francesco Maria Marescotti Ruspoli, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Bodin De Boismortier
Joseph Bodin de Boismortier (23 December 1689 – 28 October 1755) was a French baroque composer of instrumental music, cantatas, opéra-ballets, and vocal music. Boismortier was one of the first composers to have no patrons: having obtained a royal licence for engraving music in 1724, he made enormous sums of money by publishing his music for sale to the public. Biography The Boismortier family moved from the composer's birthplace in Thionville (in Lorraine) to the town of Metz where he received his musical education from Joseph Valette de Montigny, a well-known composer of motets. The Boismortier family then followed Montigny and moved to Perpignan in 1713 where Boismortier found employment in the Royal Tobacco Control. Boismortier married Marie Valette, the daughter of a rich goldsmith and a relative of his teacher Montigny. In 1724 Boismortier and his wife moved to Paris where he began a prodigious composition career, writing for many instruments and voices. He was proli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fürchte Dich Nicht, BWV 228
(Do not fear), , is a motet for a funeral by Johann Sebastian Bach, set for double chorus. The work in two movements draws its text from the Book of Isaiah and a hymn by Paul Gerhardt. Scholars disagree about the composition time and place which was traditionally believed to be 1726 in Leipzig, while more recent scholarship suggests for stylistic reasons that it was composed earlier during the years Bach lived in Weimar. History Bach composed the work for a funeral. His motets were written in the tradition of the ''Evangelienmotetten'' (motets on gospel text) of the 17th century by composers such as Melchior Franck, Melchior Vulpius and Heinrich Schütz. When he composed his motets, works without contemporary poetry and without an independent orchestra, the genre was already out of fashion. However, there was evidently a demand for such works at funerals, a ceremony for which at least some of Bach's other motets were written. As the original score has not survived, the work ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Singet Dem Herrn Ein Neues Lied, BWV 225
''Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied'' (''Sing unto the Lord a new song''), BWV 225, is a motet by Johann Sebastian Bach. It was first performed in Leipzig around (probably) 1727. The text of the three-movement motet is in German: after Psalm 149 for its first movement (), the third stanza of "Nun lob, mein Seel, den Herren" (a 1530 hymn after Psalm 103 by Johann Gramann) for the second movement, and after Psalm 150:2 and 6 for its third movement . The motet is described as being for double-choir (in other words eight voices divided into two four-part choirs). It may have been composed to provide choral exercises for Bach's students at the Thomasschule. The motet's biblical text would have been suited to that purpose. The final four-part fugue is titled "Alles was Odem hat" ("All that have voice, praise the Lord!"). Robert Marshall writes that it is "certain" that this motet was one heard by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart when he visited Leipzig's Thomasschule in 1789. Johann Friedrich R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ihr Tore Zu Zion, BWV 193
also called (You gates of Zion), BWV 193, is a sacred cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed it in Leipzig for , the inauguration of a new town council, in 1727 and first performed it on 25 August 1727. The music survives in an incomplete state. History and words While living in Leipzig Bach composed several cantatas for the ''Ratswechsel'', the inauguration of the newly elected town council. This event took place in a festive service, which was not part of the liturgical year, on the Monday following the feast of St. Bartholomew on 24 August. In 1723, Bach's first year in Leipzig, he began the series with . Another cantata was performed in 1725, but only the text has survived. Bach first performed , BWV 193 on 25 August 1727 at St. Nicholas Church. The words are by an unknown poet, who is assumed by Christoph Wolff to have been Bach's regular collaborator Picander, the librettist of the related secular cantata. The text identifies Leipzig with the holy city of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vergnügte Ruh, Beliebte Seelenlust, BWV 170
Johann Sebastian Bach composed (Delightful rest, beloved pleasure of the soul), 170, a church cantata for the sixth Sunday after Trinity in Leipzig. It is a solo cantata for alto that he first performed on 28 July 1726. History and words Bach composed the cantata in Leipzig for the Sixth Sunday after Trinity. The prescribed readings for the Sunday are from the Epistle to the Romans, "By Christ's death we are dead for sin" (), and from the Gospel of Matthew a passage from the Sermon on the Mount about better justice than the justice of merely observing laws and rules (). The text of the cantata is drawn from Georg Christian Lehms' (1711) and speaks of the desire to lead a virtuous life and so enter heaven and avoid hell. Bach first performed the cantata on 28 July 1726. Its brevity, compared to the cantatas in two parts written before and after, such as , can be explained assuming that in the same service another cantata ''Ich will meinen Geist in euch geben'', JLB 7 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gelobet Sei Der Herr, Mein Gott, BWV 129
(Praised be the Lord, my God), is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. It is a chorale cantata performed on Trinity Sunday 8 June 1727 in Leipzig.''Texte zur Leipziger Kirchen-Music auf die Heiligen Pfingst-Feyertage und das Fest der H. Dreyfaltigkeit 1727''. Leipzig: Immanuel Tietzen, 1727. Quoted i"Recent Discoveries in St Petersburg and their Meaning for the Understanding of Bach's Cantatas"by Tatiana Shabalina, pp. 77-99 i''Understanding Bach'' 4 2009 Rediscovery of the printed libretto of the cantata in the first decade of the 21st century led to a re-appraisal of prior assumptions regarding the early performance chronology of a few cantatas, including this one.Bach Digital Work at The text of the cantata is a general praise of the Trinity, without a reference to a specific gospel reading. Addressing God the Creator, the Saviour and the Comforter, it could be used for other occasions such as Reformation Day. The cantata is festively scored and ends in a chorale fant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herr, Deine Augen Sehen Nach Dem Glauben, BWV 102
Johann Sebastian Bach composed the church cantata (Lord, Your eyes look for faith), 102 in Leipzig for the tenth Sunday after Trinity and it was first performed on 25 August 1726. History and text The cantata of Bach's third annual cycle in Leipzig was written for the Tenth Sunday after Trinity. The prescribed readings for the Sunday were from the First Epistle to the Corinthians, different gifts, but one spirit (), and from the Gospel of Luke, Jesus announcing the destruction of Jerusalem and cleansing of the Temple (). The words of the cantata are only generally connected to the readings, asking the soul to return immediately to God's ways. Two movements are based on Bible words, the opening chorus on , movement 4 on . The cantata is closed by verses 6 and 7 of the hymn "" by Johann Heermann (1630), sung on the melody of Martin Luther's "" based on the Lord's Prayer. The words of the free poetry have been attributed to different authors: C. S. Terry suggests Christian Weis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Was Gott Tut, Das Ist Wohlgetan, BWV 98
Johann Sebastian Bach composed the church cantata (What God does is well done), 98, in Leipzig for the 21st Sunday after Trinity and first performed it on 10 November 1726. History and words In his fourth year in Leipzig, Bach wrote the cantata for the 21st Sunday after Trinity. The prescribed readings for the Sunday were from Paul's Epistle to the Ephesians, "take unto you the whole armour of God" (), and from the Gospel of John, the healing of the nobleman's son (). The cantata opens with the first stanza of the chorale "" (1674) by Samuel Rodigast, but it is not a chorale cantata in the strict sense of Bach's second cantata cycle, cantatas on the stanzas of one chorale. He had then treated the same chorale completely in (1724), and would do it later once more in (1732). The text of the chorale concentrates on trust in God, whereas the two cantatas previously composed for the occasion, , and , both started from doubt and distress. The poet Christoph Birkmann refers to ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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