Chosen city of Pleißen

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Bach cantata
Chosen city of Pleißen
BWV: 216a
Occasion: Homage to Leipzig
Year of origin: 1728
Place of origin: Leipzig
Genus: cantata
text
Christian Friedrich Henrici
List of Bach cantatas

Elected Pleißenstadt ( BWV 216a) is a secular cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach , which he composed in Leipzig in 1728 as a homage to Leipzig.

The cantata was premiered in 1728 or later . The text by Christian Friedrich Henrici (also known as Picander ) has been preserved; the music is lost, but there is scope for partial reconstruction.

The work is known for having a parody of the Bach cantata Freudete Pleißenstadt , BWV 216, a wedding cantata from 1728 with a text by Christian Friedrich Henrici. This wedding cantata survived in fragments.

The harpsichordist Alexander Ferdinand Grychtolik reconstructed the cantata from the draft of the libretto and fragments of the notation, which were posthumously rediscovered in 2003 in the notes of a Japanese pianist . A recording was published in 2017 on the Deutsche Harmonia Mundi .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. BWV 216a Chosen Pleißenstadt (Apollo et Mercurius) . University of Vermont. Retrieved January 27, 2014.
  2. Cantata BWV 216a . Retrieved May 18, 2013.