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    This is a sortable list of Bach cantatas, the cantatas composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. His almost 200 extant cantatas are among his important vocal...
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    The cantatas composed by Johann Sebastian Bach, known as Bach cantatas (German: Bachkantaten), are a body of work consisting of over 200 surviving independent...
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    Johann Sebastian Bach's vocal music includes cantatas, motets, masses, Magnificats, Passions, oratorios, four-part chorales, songs and arias. His instrumental...
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    Christmas cantatas. Christoph Graupner, Georg Philipp Telemann and Johann Sebastian Bach composed cycles of church cantatas for the occasions of the liturgical...
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  • as a musician, Johann Sebastian Bach composed cantatas for both secular and sacred use. His church cantatas are cantatas which he composed for use in the...
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    Italian cantatas included in volume 41. The Bach Digital website lists 50 secular cantatas by Bach. Less than half of Bach's known secular cantatas survive...
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  • There are 52 chorale cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach surviving in at least one complete version. Around 40 of these were composed during his second year...
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    a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach, regarded as one of his most mature and popular sacred cantatas. He composed the chorale cantata in Leipzig...
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    150, is an early church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach composed for an unknown occasion. It is unique among Bach's cantatas in its sparse orchestration...
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  • Johann Sebastian Bach's chorale cantata cycle is the year-cycle of church cantatas he started composing in Leipzig from the first Sunday after Trinity...
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    specifically cantatas for the Schlosskirche (palace church), on a monthly schedule. The Bach scholar Alfred Dürr suggested that Bach performed the cantata for...
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    S. Bach: Cantatas – Kantaten, Janet Baker, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, conductor Neville Marriner, Decca 1966 J. S. Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol...
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    ich sterben" List of compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach List of Bach cantatas (BWV 1–231) List of songs and arias by Johann Sebastian Bach (BWV 439–518)...
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    gesungen" Cantata text According to his obituary, Bach would have composed five year-cycles of sacred cantatas and additional church cantatas for weddings...
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    during his tenure in Weimar, also for an alto soloist. The cantata is one of three Bach cantatas written in Leipzig in 1726 in which an alto is the only...
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    Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir, BWV 29 (category Council cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach)
    (PDF). Bach Cantatas Website. pp. 7–8. Retrieved 28 November 2013. Mincham, Julian (2010). "Chapter 85 Bwv 29 – The Cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach". jsbachcantatas...
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    Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, BWV 1 (category Church cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach)
    cantata cycle, possibly because the librettist who provided the paraphrases for the middle movements of these cantatas was no longer available. Bach scored...
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  • Gesellschaft (BG) edition for the collation (e.g., BG cantata number = BWV number of the cantata): Kantaten (Cantatas), BWV 1–224 Motetten (Motets), BWV 225–231...
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  • Bach's first cantata cycle refers to the church cantatas Johann Sebastian Bach composed for the somewhat less than 60 occasions of the liturgical year...
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    Christ lag in Todes Banden, BWV 4 (category Church cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach)
    in the snares of death"), BWV 4, is a cantata for Easter by German composer Johann Sebastian Bach, one of his earliest church cantatas. It is agreed to...
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    Ach Gott, vom Himmel sieh darein, BWV 2 (category Church cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach)
    Bach cantata two decades in the making". The Globe and Mail. McElhearn, Kirk (2001). "Johann Sebastian BACH (1685–1750) / Cantatas Vol. 29: Cantatas from...
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  • anniversary cantatas. BWV 202, 210 and 216 are examples of secular cantatas for weddings by J. S. Bach. Sacred cantatas for weddings Johann Christoph Bach Meine...
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    Johann Ludwig Bach appeared in the 19th century: Johann Theodor Mosewius listed 16 of his cantatas in 1852, and Alfred Dörffel listed 17 cantatas and the Mass...
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    Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 177 (category Church cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach)
    University of Alberta Gardiner, John Eliot (2008). Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) / Cantatas Nos 24, 71, 88, 93, 131, 177 & 185 (Cantatas Vol 3) (Media...
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    cantatas of W.F. Bach, followed by translations of the texts of these movements and a critical commentary.") Falck, Martin. Wilhelm Friedemann Bach;...
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    Jesus nahm zu sich die Zwölfe, BWV 22 (category Church cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach)
    of them as church cantatas without major changes, for example Ein Herz, das seinen Jesum lebend weiß, BWV 134. Bach composed this cantata as part of his...
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    Ich habe genug, BWV 82 (category Church cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach)
    performed of Bach's sacred cantatas. The opening aria and so-called "slumber aria" are regarded as some of the most inspired creations of Bach. Bach composed...
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    Wo Gott der Herr nicht bei uns hält, BWV 178 (category Church cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach)
    (PDF). Bach Cantatas Website. p. 9. Retrieved 24 July 2012. Oron, Aryeh (2024). "Cantata BWV 178 Wo Gott der Herr nicht bei uns hält". Bach Cantatas Website...
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    Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen, BWV 51 (category Church cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach)
    Scarlatti. Bach's son Friedemann Bach arranged the work by adding a second trumpet and timpani. The cantata is one of only four sacred cantatas that Bach wrote...
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    Unser Mund sei voll Lachens, BWV 110 (category Church cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach)
    (PDF). Bach Cantatas Website. pp. 5–6. Retrieved 13 December 2015. Oron, Aryeh. "Cantata BWV 110 Unser Mund sei voll Lachens". Bach Cantatas Website...
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