Move away, you shine stars

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Bach cantata
Move away, you shine stars
BWV: Appendix 9
Occasion: birthday
Year of origin: 1727
Place of origin: Leipzig
Genus: cantata
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Christian Friedrich Haupt
List of Bach cantatas

Move away, you cheer up stars ( BWV 1156 / BWV Appendix 9) is a lost cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach , which he composed in Leipzig in 1727 for the 57th birthday of August II in Leipzig. On May 12, 1727, the birthday of August II, it was performed by students from the University of Leipzig on the market square under Bach's direction. The libretto written by Christian Friedrich Haupt was presented to the king .

August II , for whose birthday the cantata was composed.

The music of this Bach cantata is lost. However, the surviving libretto suggests that several movements from the B minor Mass emerged from it. A reconstruction of the cantata emerged from the music of this mass. The cantata is one of Bach's works for festivals at Leipzig University , and festival music for Leipzig university celebrations .

Recordings

The reconstruction by Klaus Höfner was started.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Cantata BWV Anh 9 . In: Bach Cantatas website . Aryeh Oron. October 1, 2005. Retrieved November 19, 2008.
  2. ^ A b c David Charlton: Music of the Augustan Age: Outside Composers . In: Classical Net . 2000.
  3. ^ David Timm : Festival music for Leipzig university celebrations ( German ). Leipzig University Choir, 2009, p. 8f (accessed December 2, 2012).