Pleasant recovery
| Bach cantata | |
|---|---|
| Pleasant recovery | |
| BWV: | 30a |
| Occasion: | Acquisition of castle and estate Wiederau by Johann Christian of Hennicke |
| Year of origin: | 1737 |
| Place of origin: | Leipzig |
| Genus: | Secular cantata |
| Solo : | SATB |
| Choir: | SATI / II BI / II |
| Instruments : | Trba I-III; V conc; Fltr I / II; Ob I / II; Ob d'am; St. Bc |
| AD : | approx. 40 min |
| text | |
| Christian Friedrich Henrici | |
| List of Bach cantatas | |
Angenehmes Wiederau ( BWV 30a) is a secular cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach .
Cause
The Electoral Saxon Secret Council and Vice-Chamber President Johann Christian von Hennicke received palace and Gut Wiederau near Leipzig as a hereditary fiefdom in 1737 . On this occasion, a homage ceremony took place on September 28, 1737 at the castle . The festival cantata Angenehmes Wiederau was composed by the Leipzig Thomaskantor and city director musices Johann Sebastian Bach based on a text by Johann Christian Henrici (Picander), with whom he has worked intensively for a long time. Bach is likely to have brought members of the student Collegium Musicum, which he directed, to Wiederau for the performance .
content
The “plot” is a dialogue between four allegorical figures, fate (bass), luck (alto), time (soprano) and the river Elster (tenor). This refers to the White Elster , which, coming from the Bohemian Elster Mountains , flows through the Wiederauer Feldmark to Leipzig and flows into the Saale near Halle .
The four outdo each other, each from his point of view, in praise and promises of luck for the new landlord and his property: "So we / in this house here / with joy." Wealth, security, duration, fame, fertility are promised. In the first recitative von Wiederau says: "You should now be called Hennicks-Ruhe." In another five of the twelve movements Hennicke is named. In contrast to other secular cantatas of Bach, there is no rivalry between the protagonists, hence no dramatic contrasts.
music
According to the original text, the music of the opening and closing chorus with the same notes and the five arias alternating with recitatives show festive cheerfulness throughout. It is "just as pleasing, sometimes extremely fashionable, as it is original and captivating in its invention" (Dürr). The great majority of the movements have the character of a dance. Perhaps Bach already had in mind the reuse of the music for a church cantata while composing it. In any case, with the exception of the recitatives and Aria No. 11, all movements with new text were included in the cantata for St. John's Day, Freue dich, Redeemed Schar (BWV 30). In this one, even the recitatives are metrically modeled exactly on those of the Wiederau cantata, but Bach finally composed them anew. The perfect spiritual counterfacture of the text must also be the work of Picander, who specializes in this art, although the model for BWV 30 is not found in his printed works either.
literature
- Alfred Dürr : The cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach . Munich 1985, pp. 955-959
- Christoph Wolff : Johann Sebastian Bach . Fischer, Frankfurt a. M. 2000, p. 390
Web links
- Original text print
- Angenehmes Wiederau, BWV 30a : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
- Structure and complete text of the cantata
Individual evidence
- ↑ For unknown reasons, Picander did not include the text in his Ernst-Schertzhaffte and Satyrical Poems collection . The fact that he is the author is proven by both the linguistic peculiarities of the text and the close relationship Picander had with Hennicke, to whom he had just dedicated a volume of his poems in 1737 ( dedication page ). He is named on the title page of the original text print . Both Dürr and Wolff (see lit.) take Picander's authorship as certain.
- ↑ Wolff p. 390
- ↑ p. 958
- ↑ Dürr p. 765 on BWV 30
- ↑ Dürr p. 764
