Long live the king, the father in the land

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Bach cantata
Long live the king, the father in the land
BWV: Appendix 11
Occasion: Name day of August II.
Year of origin: 1732
Place of origin: Leipzig
Genus: cantata
Solo : not known
Choir: not known
Instruments : not known
text
Christian Friedrich Henrici
List of Bach cantatas

Long live the king, the father in the country ( BWV Appendix 11) is a secular cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach , which he performed in August 1732 in Leipzig for the name day of the Elector of the Electorate of Saxony August II . Whose music is lost. The text of this Bach cantata comes from Christian Friedrich Henrici (also known as Picander ) and was published in his work Ernst-Schertzhaffte and Satyrische Gedichte , Part IV .

The first movement probably served as a template for the cantata prices your luck, blessed Saxony , BWV 215 - a work that Bach composed at short notice in 1734. BWV 215 is for a double choir and a festive orchestra with trumpets and timpani .

The cantata is one of the festival works of the University of Leipzig , festival music is part of Leipzig university celebrations .

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Individual evidence

  1. a b Anh 11 Long live the king, the father in the country near Bach Cantatas (English)
  2. ^ Christian Friedrich Henrici : Ernst-Schertzhaffte and Satyrische Gedichte . Part IV. Friedrich Matthias Friesen, Leipzig (1737); Text archive - Internet Archive .
  3. George Stauffer, Gregory Butler (Ed.): About Bach . University of Illinois Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-252-09069-1 , pp. 57-58.
  4. ^ David Timm : Festival music for Leipzig university celebrations . Leipzig University Choir , 2009, p. 8 f. (Accessed December 2, 2012).