The newborn child (Bach)
Bach cantata | |
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The newborn baby | |
BWV: | 122 |
Occasion: | Sunday after Christmas |
Year of origin: | 1724 |
Place of origin: | Leipzig |
Genus: | cantata |
Solo : | S, A, T, B |
Choir: | (S, A, T, B) |
Instruments : | 3 Fl, 2 Ob, Ot, 2 Vl, Va, Bc |
text | |
Cyriacus Schneegaß | |
List of Bach cantatas |
Das neueborn Kindelein ( BWV 122) is a sacred cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach , which he composed in Leipzig for the Sunday after Christmas and performed there for the first time on December 31, 1724. The text is partly taken from the poem of the same name (2nd – 4th stanza) by Cyriacus Schneegass (2nd – 5th movement). The text has been repackaged and expanded by an unknown author.
construction
The cantata is in four parts ( soprano , alto , tenor and bass occupied) and with stringed instruments , a baroque , a recorder and basso instrumented.
The cantata is divided into the following six movements:
- Choral (soprano, alto, tenor, bass) The newborn child
- Aria (bass) O people who sin every day
- Recitative (soprano) The angels who were previously
- Aria (soprano, alto, tenor) Is God reconciled and our friend
- Recitative (Bass) This is a day the Lord himself made
- Choral (soprano, alto, tenor, bass) It brings the right jubilee year .
See also
Web links
- The newborn child, BWV 122 (Bach, Johann Sebastian) : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
- The newborn baby BWV 122; BC A 19 Bach digital
- Musopen : Bach the newborn child, BWV 122. About this piece. In: musopen.org. Musopen, p. 6 , accessed December 2, 2019 .
- Peter Bach: The newborn baby. Cantata for the Sunday after Christmas. In: Bach.de. Peter Bach, p. 1 , accessed on December 2, 2019 .
- BWV 122 Das neueborn Kindelein Text, structure and composition on the personal homepage of Walter F. Bischof at the University of Alberta