• Most of Johann Sebastian Bach's extant church music in Latin—settings of (parts of) the Mass ordinary and of the Magnificat canticle—dates from his Leipzig...
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    based on work by Telemann. Bach wrote hundreds of four-part harmonisations of Lutheran chorales. Bach's church music in Latin includes the Magnificat, four...
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    however most likely composed by Bach. See #BWV Chapter 3 in the table above Bach's involvement with Latin church music, as composer, arranger or copyist...
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    provided a life pension for Bach's widow. He was buried in the graveyard of St. Pancras Old Church, London. The works of J. C. Bach are given 'W' numbers,...
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    Most of Bach's church cantatas date from his first years as Thomaskantor and director of church music in Leipzig, a position which he took up in 1723. Working...
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    outside Bach's usual routine for liturgical music. Bach was not the first to include mixed German/Latin Christmas interpolations in a Magnificat sung in Latin:...
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    War, Unlike Bach's other church cantatas, the words are not in German, taken from the Bible, a chorale or contemporary poetry, but in Latin, taken from...
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  • Sebastian Bach composed cantatas for both secular and sacred use. His church cantatas are cantatas which he composed for use in the Lutheran church, mainly...
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    Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 62 (category Church cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach)
    at an auction in 1735. Bach's successor Johann Friedrich Doles performed the cantata after Bach's death. Bach structured the cantata in six movements...
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  • (Palestrina), a 1570 work by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina Bach's church music in Latin#Separate movements, copies, and arrangements List of masses by...
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    Bach's Missa of 1733, BWV 232 I (early version), is a Kyrie–Gloria Mass in B minor, composed in 1733 by Johann Sebastian Bach. It is an extended missa...
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  • of Bach's chamber music compositions]. In Schulze, Hans-Joachim; Wolff, Christoph (eds.). Bach-Jahrbuch 1979 [Bach Yearbook 1979]. Bach-Jahrbuch (in German)...
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    Bach composed both church cantatas, most of them for specific occasions of the liturgical year of the Lutheran Church, and secular cantatas. Bach's earliest...
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    pp. 97–104 in The Music of Bach: An Introduction. London: Oxford University Press List of Bach's secular cantatas at classical.net "Bach's Secular Cantata...
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  • Sebastian Bach's chorale cantata cycle is the year-cycle of church cantatas he started composing in Leipzig from the first Sunday after Trinity in 1724. It...
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  • series of the Neue Bach-Ausgabe (NBA, New Bach Edition), a publication of Johann Sebastian Bach's music from 1954 to 2007. In the Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis...
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    In Christian music, a Passion is a setting of the Passion of Christ. Liturgically, most Passions were intended to be performed as part of church services...
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  • today. Bach's organ preludes are quite diverse, drawing on both southern and northern German influences. Most of Bach's preludes were written in the theme...
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    Johann Sebastian Bach, the earliest of the surviving Passions by Bach. It was written during his first year as director of church music in Leipzig and was...
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    associated with Neumeister that Bach started to use for church cantatas in 1714. Wolff points out the relation of Bach's early cantatas to works by Dieterich...
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    Thomanerchor (category German church music)
    Thomanum or Anna-Magdalena-Bach-Schule. Johann Sebastian Bach served as Thomaskantor, director of the choir and church music in Leipzig, from 1723 to 1750...
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    Steinitz. "Bach's Latin Church Music". London Bach Society. Archived from the original on 15 July 2011. Retrieved 16 September 2010. (in German) Schmieder...
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    by C.F. Peters in 1997, uses two copies of the 1748–50 manuscript made before C.P.E. Bach's adulterations to try to reconstruct Bach's original readings...
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    Johann Sebastian Bach's Leben, Wirken und Werke: ein Beitrag zur Kunstgeschichte des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts [Johann Sebastian Bach's Life, Work and Works:...
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    Soli Deo gloria (category CS1 Latin-language sources (la))
    Soli Deo gloria is a Latin term for Glory to God alone. It has been used by artists like Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frideric Handel, and Christoph...
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    compositions for organ by Johann Sebastian Bach, started in 1735–36 and published in 1739. It is considered Bach's most significant and extensive work for...
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  • Bach and Wilhelm Friedemann Bach: Lasset uns ablegen die Werke der Finsternis (6 June 1772 and 22 May 1779: C. P. E. Bach's reworking of W. F. Bach's...
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    century. Already in 1665, Johann Christoph Bach was appointed organist at St. George's Church in Eisenach. Bach's father Johann Ambrosius Bach accepted a position...
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    Yo-Yo Ma (category Latin Grammy Award winners)
    six of Bach's cello suites at the Royal Albert Hall (London) as part of the BBC Proms season. On September 12, 2017, Ma performed all six of Bach's cello...
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    training Bach's young singers, and Christoph Wolff has argued that this could apply in particular to Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied. Bach's motets are...
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