Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750)
Let us watch him, let us guard him BWV 213
Hercules at the crossroads (Dramma per musica)
5 solister (SAATB), blandad kör (SATB), orkester, basso continuo
Detaljer
- För
- 5 solister (SAATB), blandad kör (SATB), orkester, basso continuo
- Typ av produkt
- Partitur (urtext)
- Författare / Kompositör
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Utgivare
- Uwe Wolf
- Produktnummer
- 1747506
Beskrivning
What does Bach’s Christmas Oratorio have to do with Hercules? More than you might think at first glance. In the fall of 1733, with the eleventh birthday of the Saxon Crown Prince Friedrich Christian fast approaching, Johann Sebastian Bach composed the secular cantata Lasst uns sorgen, lasst uns wachen (Let us watch him, let us guard him), which he then performed on the prince’s birthday (September 5) with the Collegium Musicum in the garden of Zimmermann’s coffeehouse in Leipzig.
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