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    Tfd›German: Thomaskirche) is a Lutheran church in Leipzig, Germany, located at the western part of the inner city ring road in Leipzig's central district...
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    orchestra also performs frequently in the Thomaskirche and as the official opera orchestra of the Leipzig Opera. The orchestra's origins can be traced...
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    Leipzig (/ˈlaɪpsɪɡ, -sɪx/ LYPE-sig, -⁠sikh, German: [ˈlaɪptsɪç] ; Upper Saxon: Leibz'sch; Upper Sorbian: Lipsk) is the most populous city in the German...
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    church in Leipzig Church St. Thomas, one of the two main churches in the city Gothic ribbed vault of the Thomaskirche Around 1500 Leipzig had 7,000 to...
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    Johann Sebastian Bach, who was as Thomaskantor the music director of Thomaskirche and Nikolaikirche from 1723 to 1750, premiered here. The Neoclassical...
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    in Leipzig for the 18th Sunday after Trinity, and first performed it on 20 October 1726. Bach wrote the cantata during his fourth year in Leipzig, for...
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    Leipzig. It was built in 1231 as the Klosterkirche St. Pauli for the Dominican monastery in Leipzig. From the foundation of the University of Leipzig...
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    Untersuchungen bei Sängern des Thomanerchores Leipzig. 1997 Stefan Altner: Thomanerchor und Thomaskirche. Historisches und Gegenwärtiges in Bildern. Tauchaer...
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  • Vocal Ensemble under the direction of Philipp Amelung in the St. Thomaskirche, Leipzig, Germany. Conrad, Willa (March 27, 2006), "Choirs up to a Mass challenge"...
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  • Thumbnail for Halt im Gedächtnis Jesum Christ, BWV 67
    BWV 67, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed it in Leipzig for Quasimodogeniti, the first Sunday after Easter, and first performed...
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    composed the cantata in Leipzig for the second day of Pentecost and first performed it on 6 June 1729. Bach wrote the cantata in Leipzig for Pentecost Monday...
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    BWV 47, in Leipzig for the 17th Sunday after Trinity and first performed it on 13 October 1726. Bach wrote the cantata in his fourth year in Leipzig for the...
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    in Leipzig. It was premiered on 8 June 2023 by Thomaskantor Andreas Reize conducting Gewandhausorchester Leipzig and Thomanerchor at Thomaskirche. In...
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    church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed the chorale cantata in Leipzig for New Year's Day and first performed it on 1 January 1725 as part of...
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    third Sunday after Easter. Bach composed it in Leipzig in 1726 or 1727. Bach composed the cantata in Leipzig for the Third Sunday after Easter, called Jubilate...
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    BWV 102 in Leipzig for the tenth Sunday after Trinity and it was first performed on 25 August 1726. The cantata of Bach's third annual cycle in Leipzig was written...
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    many church cantatas composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed it in Leipzig, setting a text appropriate for the Ninth Sunday after Trinity Sunday,...
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    cantata Schwingt freudig euch empor (Soar joyfully upwards), BWV 36, in Leipzig in 1731 for the first Sunday in Advent. He drew on material from previous...
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    Bach. It is a chorale cantata performed on Trinity Sunday 8 June 1727 in Leipzig. Rediscovery of the printed libretto of the cantata in the first decade...
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    Paul McCreesh. He sang Bach's St John Passion in the Thomaskirche, Leipzig. At the Bachfest Leipzig 2003, he sang in the Mass in B minor, which traditionally...
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  • Thumbnail for Meine Seufzer, meine Tränen, BWV 13
    it in Leipzig for the second Sunday after Epiphany and first performed it on 20 January 1726. Bach wrote the cantata in his third year in Leipzig for the...
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    first performed it in Leipzig on 23 January 1724. It was probably composed shortly before the first performance. Bach arrived in Leipzig in 1723. He set about...
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    2000 the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage and performed this cantata in Leipzig's Thomaskirche, notes that the cantata's two recitatives are "exemplary even by...
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    church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed the chorale cantata in Leipzig for the Second Sunday after Epiphany and first performed it on 14 January...
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    church cantata for the 17th Sunday after Trinity. Bach composed it in Leipzig in 1723 or 1725. Bach wrote the cantata for the 17th Sunday after Trinity...
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    und suche mit Verlangen (I go forth and seek with longing), BWV 49, in Leipzig for the twentieth Sunday after Trinity Sunday and first performed it on...
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  • Sebastian Knüpfer died, Schelle succeeded him as Kantor of the Thomaskirche in Leipzig, a post later held by J.S. Bach. He obtained the post on 31 January...
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  • Thumbnail for Gottlob! nun geht das Jahr zu Ende, BWV 28
    December 1725. Bach composed the cantata in his third year as Thomaskantor in Leipzig for the Sunday after Christmas. The prescribed readings for the Sunday...
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    mich erlösen (Wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me), BWV 48, in Leipzig for the 19th Sunday after Trinity and first performed it on 3 October 1723...
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    it in Leipzig for the 16th Sunday after Trinity and first performed it on 6 October 1726. Bach composed the cantata in his fourth year in Leipzig for the...
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