Talk:Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern
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I've removed my original note that BWV 150 is believed to be Bach's earliest surviving cantata. Now I come to check a few things again, I see that the balance of opinion certainly seems to be with BWV 131. I really can't remember where I got the idea that it was BWV 150 (I didn't recheck this when writing this article, I just lifted the info from what I'd already written some time ago at Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich)--if anybody has a source that states it is the earliest, it may be worth mentioning, but it seems I, at least, do not. Sorry about that. --Camembert
[edit] Help!
Can someone help me make a sucession box for Bachs cantatas? Gareth E Kegg 19:02, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
- It's not really worth the effort, for several reasons:
- The BWV catalogue isn't ordered chronologically, so the claim that BWV 1 is somehow "succeeded" by BWV 2 misleading and confusing.
- There are too many cantatas that cannot be dated specifically enough to produce a proper chronological succession.
- Related to #2, Bach frequently re-used cantatas that he had already composed in lieu of composing a new one, particularly in the years following 1727.
- Microtonal 20:27, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
