Angenehmes Wiederau, BWV 30a
Angenehmes Wiederau (Pleasant Wiederau), BWV 30a,[lower-alpha 1] is a secular cantata composed by Johann Sebastian Bach.
History and text
The work was composed in Leipzig in 1737 as an homage to Johann Christian von Hennicke, who had acquired an estate including the Wiederau manor. The only performance of the work occurred on 28 September at Gut Wiederau manor near Leipzig.
The text of the cantata was most likely written by Bach's trusted librettist Christian Friedrich Henrici (Picander).[1]
The chorale theme is Freu dich sehr, o meine Seele, which was codified by Louis Bourgeois when setting the Geneva Psalm 42 in his collection of Pseaumes octante trios de David (Geneva, 1551). Bourgeois seems to have been influenced by the secular song "Ne l'oseray je dire" contained in the Manuscrit de Bayeux published around 1510.
Scoring and structure
The piece is scored for basso continuo , along with four vocal soloists (soprano as Zeit (Time), alto as Glück (Good Fortune), tenor as Elster (River Elster), bass as Schicksal (Fate)) and four-part choir.[2]
The cantata has thirteen movements:
- Chorus: Angenehmes Wiederau
- Recitative (bass, soprano, alto, tenor): So ziehen wir
- Aria (bass): Willkommen im Heil, willkommen in Freuden
- Recitative (alto): Da heute dir, gepriesner Hennicke
- Aria (alto): Was die Seele kann ergötzen
- Recitative (bass): Und wie ich jederzeit bedacht
- Aria (bass): Ich will dich halten
- Recitative (soprano): Und obwohl sonst der Unbestand
- Aria (soprano): Eilt, ihr Stunden, wie ihr wollt
- Recitative (tenor): So recht! ihr seid mir werte Gäste
- Aria (tenor): So, wie ich die Tropfen zolle
- Recitative (soprano, bass, alto): Drum, angenehmes Wiederau
- Chorus: Angenehmes Wiederau
Music
The eleventh movement, a tenor aria, is a reworking of a soprano aria from BWV 210. The other major movements were later reused in BWV 30, while the recitatives are newly composed.[3][4]
Recordings
- Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir; Ton Koopman. J.S. Bach: Complete Cantatas Vol. 22. Antoine Marchand
- Gächinger Kantorei/Bach-Collegium Stuttgart; Helmuth Rilling. Edition Bachakademie Vol. 139 – Congratulatory and Hommage Cantatas. Hänssler
- Leipziger Universitätschor/Neues Bachisches Collegium Musicum; Max Pommer. Kantate "Angenehmes Wiederau" BWV 30a. Eterna/Berlin Classic
- Les Chantres du Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles/Café Zimmermann; Gustav Leonhardt. J.S. Bach: Weltliche Kantaten BWV 30a & 207 (Integrale delle Cantate profane Vol. 5). Alpha 118
Notes
- ↑ "BWV" is Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis, a thematic catalogue of Bach's works.
References
- ↑ C. S. Terry and D. Litti, "Bach's Cantata Libretti", Journal of the Royal Musical Association 1917 44(1): 71–125; doi:10.1093/jrma/44.1.71
- ↑ Walter F. Bischof, Text and orchestration for BWV 30a, Bach Cantatas, University of Alberta (German).
- ↑ Julian Mincham
- ↑ Classical Net
Sources
- Alfred Dürr: Johann Sebastian Bach: Die Kantaten. Bärenreiter, Kassel 1999, ISBN 3-7618-1476-3
- Alfred Dürr: The Cantatas of J.S. Bach, Oxford University Press, 2006. ISBN 0-19-929776-2
- Werner Neumann: Handbuch der Kantaten J.S.Bachs, 1947, 5th Ed. 1984, ISBN 3-7651-0054-4
- Hans-Joachim Schulze: Die Bach-Kantaten: Einführungen zu sämtlichen Kantaten Johann Sebastian Bachs. Leipzig: Evangelische Verlags-Anstalt; Stuttgart: Carus-Verlag 2006 (Edition Bach-Archiv Leipzig) ISBN 3-374-02390-8 (Evang. Verl.-Anst.), ISBN 3-89948-073-2 (Carus-Verlag)
- Christoph Wolff/Ton Koopman: Die Welt der Bach-Kantaten Verlag J.B. Metzler, Stuttgart, Weimar 2006 ISBN 978-3-476-02127-4
External links
- Discussion of the work on Bach Cantatas Website
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