Happy day, required hours

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Happy Day, Required Hours ( BWV Anh. 18) is a secular cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach . He composed it for the inauguration of the renovated St. Thomas School in Leipzig and directed the premiere on June 5, 1732. With the exception of the first movement, the music has not survived, but the libretto by Johann Heinrich Winckler , a teacher at the St. Thomas School and thus Bach's colleague.

History and structure

Thomas School in Leipzig, photo taken shortly before the demolition in 1902. Bach's apartment was on the left side of the house.

In 1731, renovation work began on the Thomas School under the direction of the architect George Werner , with the building being raised by two floors. The Bach family and other residents of the school building had to move for a year. After the renovation in 1732, the family lived in an entire wing of the building over three floors.

The cantata consists of ten movements. Speeches were planned in a pause after the first five numbers, similar to the church cantatas, which were originally divided into parts before and after the sermon.

  1. Happy day, required hours
  2. We introduce ourselves now
  3. Fathers of our linden city
  4. Desire and drive to knowledge
  5. So let us discover through speech and expression
  6. Mind and soul are eager
  7. So great is well-being and happiness
  8. But you are not free and loose
  9. If wisdom and understanding
  10. Eternal being that creates everything

In 2009, the Bachhaus Eisenach auctioned a text booklet from 1732 with the libretto by Froher Tag, asked for hours at a price of 10,500 euros.

Later edits

Bach used parts of this cantata several times for later compositions, initially for the secular cantata Frohes Volk, geschnügte Sachsen , BWV Anh. 12, which he wrote in 1733 on the name day of August III. composed. The music of the opening choir is derived from the fact that Bach reused it for the Ascension Oratorio Lobet Gott in seine Reichen BWV 11, composed in 1735 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ M. Geck: Johann Sebastian Bach . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. ↑ Bachhaus buys the original text booklet . In; Märkische Oderzeitung , March 16, 2009
Cantatas (BWV), oratorios and passions by Johann Sebastian Bach
Sacred cantatas

1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 6 • 7 • 8 • 9 • 10 • 12 • 13 • 14 • 16 • 17 • 18 • 19 • 20 • 21 • 22 • 23 • 24 • 25 • 26 • 27 • 28 • 29 • 30 • 31 • 32 • 33 • 34 • 35 • 36 • 37 • 38 • 39 • 40 • 41 • 42 • 43 • 44 • 45 • 46 • 47 • 48 • 49 • 50 • 51 • 52 • 54 • 55 • 56 • 57 • 58 • 59 • 60 • 61 • 62 • 63 • 64 • 65 • 66 • 67 • 68 • 69a • 70 / 70a • 71 • 72 • 73 • 74 • 75 • 76 • 77 • 78 • 79 • 80 • 80a • 81 • 82 • 83 • 84 • 85 • 86 • 87 • 88 • 89 • 90 • 91 • 92 • 93 • 94 • 95 • 96 • 97 • 98 • 99 • 100 • 101 • 102 • 103 • 104 • 105 • 106 • 107 • 108 • 109 • 110 • 111 • 112 • 113 • 114 • 115 • 116 • 117 • 118 • 119 • 120 • 121 • 122 • 123 • 124 • 125 • 126 • 127 • 128 • 129 • 130 • 131 • 132 • 133 • 134 • 135 • 136 • 137 • 138 • 139 • 140 • 143 • 144 • 145 • 146 • 147 / 147a • 148 • 149 • 150 • 151 • 152 • 153 • 154 • 155 • 156 • 157 • 158 • 159 • 161 • 162 • 163 • 164 • 165 • 166 • 167 • 168 • 169 • 170 • 171 • 172 • 173 • 174 • 175 • 176 • 177 • 178 • 179 • 180 • 181 • 182 • 183 • 184 • 185 • 186 • 187 • 188 • 190 • 191 • 192 • 193 • 194 • 195 • 196 • 197 • 199 • 244a

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Secular cantatas

30a • 34a • 36c • 134a • 173a • 198 • 201 • 202 • 203 • 204 • 205 • 206 • 207 • 207a • 208 • 209 • 210 • 210a • 211 • 212 • 213 • 214 • 215 • 216a • 249a

Cantatas not preserved

App. 1 • App. 2 • App. 3 • App. 4 • App. 4a • App. 5 • App. 6 • App. 7 • App. 8 • App. 9 • App. 10 • App. 11 • App. 12 • App. 13 • App. 14 • App. 15 • App. 16 • App. 17 • App. 18 • App. 19

Passions

St. Matthew Passion (BWV 244) • St. John Passion (BWV 245) • St. Luke Passion (BWV 246) (Bach's authorship questioned) • St. Mark Passion (BWV 247)

Oratorios

Ascension Oratorio (BWV 11) • Christmas Oratorio (BWV 248) • Easter Oratorio (BWV 249)