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BWV 232 Credo Revision
The (, ; BWV) is a catalogue of compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach. It was first published in 1950, edited by Wolfgang Schmieder. The catalogue's second edition appeared in 1990 and the third edition in 2022.Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis (BWV). Thematisch-systematisches Verzeichnis der musikalischen Werke von Johann Sebastian Bach, 3rd expanded edn. Edited by Christine Blanken, Christoph Wolff and Peter Wollny The catalogue groups compositions by genre. Even within a genre, compositions are not necessarily collated chronologically. In part this reflects that fact that some compositions cannot be dated. However, an approximate or precise date can be assigned to others: for example, BWV 992 was composed many years before BWV 1. Alternative classifications The BWV classification is open to criticism, and the Bach scholar Christoph Wolff was involved in the design of an alternative, the Bach Compendium. Publication of the Bach Compendium began in 1985. The BWV, however, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catalogues Of Classical Compositions
This article gives an overview of various catalogues of classical compositions that have come into general use. Opus numbers While the opus numbering system has long been the standard manner in which individual compositions are identified and referenced, it is far from universal, and there have been many different applications of the system. Very few composers gave opus numbers to all of their published works without exception: * Some composers used it for certain genres of music but not for others (for example, in George Frideric Handel, Handel's time, it was normal to apply opus numbers to instrumental compositions but not to vocal compositions such as operas, oratorios, etc.). * Some composers gave opus numbers to some of their early compositions but abandoned the practice after some time (examples include Franz Liszt, Liszt and Paul Hindemith, Hindemith). * Some used it in a very erratic manner or were subject to the wishes of their publishers, who for commercial reasons often ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Organ Compositions By Johann Sebastian Bach
Organ compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach refers to the compositions in the seventh chapter of the Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis (BWV, catalogue of Bach's compositions), or, in the New Bach Edition, the compositions in Series IV. Six Sonatas (BWV 525–530) * BWV 525 – Sonata No. 1 in E-flat major * BWV 526 – Sonata No. 2 in C minor * BWV 527 – Sonata No. 3 in D minor * BWV 528 – Sonata No. 4 in E minor * BWV 529 – Sonata No. 5 in C major * BWV 530 – Sonata No. 6 in G major In the form of a Prelude, Toccata, Fantasia, Passacaglia, middle movement and/or Fugue (BWV 531–582) * BWV 531 – Prelude and Fugue in C major * BWV 532 – Prelude and Fugue in D major * BWV 532a – Fugue in D major (alternative version of the fugue of BWV 532) * BWV 533 – Prelude and Fugue in E minor ("Cathedral") * BWV 533a – Prelude and Fugue in E minor (alternative version of BWV 533 without pedals) * BWV 534 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ach Gott, Vom Himmel Sieh Darein, BWV 2
(Oh God, look down from heaven), 2, is a chorale cantata composed by Johann Sebastian Bach for the second Sunday after Trinity Sunday, Trinity in 1724. First performed on 18 June in Leipzig, it is the second cantata of chorale cantata cycle, his chorale cantata cycle. The church cantata is based on Martin Luther's 1524 hymn "", a paraphrase of Psalm 12. In the Chorale cantata (Bach)#Format, format of Bach's chorale cantata cycle, the words of the hymn are retained unchanged only in the outer movements, while an unknown contemporary Libretto, librettist paraphrased the inner stanzas for recitatives and arias. Bach structured the cantata in six Movement (music), movements, setting the chorale tune in a chorale fantasia in the opening movement, and in a four-part setting in the closing movement. The two choral movements frame alternating recitatives and arias of three vocal soloists. Bach also used a SATB, four-part choir, and a Baroque instruments, Baroque instrumental ensemble of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bach Cantata
The cantatas composed by Johann Sebastian Bach, known as Bach cantatas ( German: ), are a body of work consisting of over 200 surviving independent works, and at least several dozen that are considered lost. As far as known, Bach's earliest cantatas date from 1707, the year he moved to Mühlhausen, although he may have begun composing them at his previous post in Arnstadt. Most of Bach's church cantatas date from his first years as and director of church music in Leipzig, a position which he took up in 1723. Working for Leipzig's and , it was part of Bach's job to perform a church cantata every Sunday and holiday, conducting soloists, the Thomanerchor and orchestra as part of the church service. In his first years in Leipzig, starting after Trinity of 1723, Bach regularly composed a new cantata every week, although some of these cantatas were adapted (at least in part) from work he had composed before his Leipzig era. Works from three annual cycles of cantatas for the l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wie Schön Leuchtet Der Morgenstern, BWV 1
('How beautifully the morning star shines'), 1, is a List of church cantatas by liturgical occasion#Annunciation (25 March), church cantata for Annunciation by Johann Sebastian Bach. In 1725, when the cantata was composed, the feast of the Annunciation (25 March) coincided with Palm Sunday. Based on Philipp Nicolai's hymn "" (1599), it is one of Chorale cantata (Bach), Bach's chorale cantatas. Bach composed it in his second year as Thomaskantor (Cantor (Christianity)#Protestantism, cantor at St. Thomas Church, Leipzig, St. Thomas) in Leipzig, where the Marian feast was the only occasion during Lent when music of this kind was permitted. The Theme (narrative), theme of the hymn suits both the Annunciation and Palm Sunday occasions, in a spirit of longing expectation of an arrival. As usual for Bach's chorale cantata cycle, the hymn was paraphrased by a contemporary poet who retained the hymn's first and last stanzas unchanged, but transformed the themes of the inner stanzas into ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 Frie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bach Archive
The Bach-Archiv Leipzig or Bach-Archiv is an institution for the documentation and research of the life and work of Johann Sebastian Bach. The Bach-Archiv also researches the Bach family, especially their music. Based in Leipzig, the city where Bach lived from 1723 until his death, the Archiv is recognised by the German government as a "cultural beacon" of national importance. Since 2008 the Bach-Archiv has been part of the University of Leipzig. History The Bach-Archiv was founded on the occasion of the bicentennial of Bach's death in 1950 by Werner Neumann, who remained its director until 1973. It served as a central archive for manuscripts and historic documents connected to the composer and a central research center related to him and his family. At the time of the institution's foundation Leipzig was in East Germany. Prior to German unification there was collaboration with Bach experts in West Germany. For example, the second edition of Bach's complete works, the Neue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
