Praise the Lord, all his hosts
| Bach cantata | |
|---|---|
| Praise the Lord, all his hosts | |
| BWV: | Appendix 5 |
| Occasion: | Prince Leopold's 24th birthday |
| Year of origin: | 1718 |
| Place of origin: | Leipzig |
| Genus: | cantata |
| text | |
| Christian Friedrich Hunold | |
| List of Bach cantatas | |
Praise the Lord, all his armies ( BWV Appendix 5) is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach , which he performed on the occasion of the 24th birthday of Prince Leopold on December 10, 1718 in Leipzig . The music of this Bach cantata is lost, the libretto exists as a print from 1719.
history
Johann Sebastian Bach was Kapellmeister in Köthen from 1717 . During his employment there with Prince Leopold, which lasted until 1723, he mainly composed secular music. The vocal music he composed in Koethen consisted almost exclusively of secular cantatas with librettos by Christian Friedrich Hunold , who published such texts under the pseudonym Menantes . Bach's secular cantatas of this time are often congratulatory cantatas on occasions such as the New Year and the prince's birthday. On his 24th birthday, Prince Leopold engaged a number of guest musicians , including the singers Prese and Johann Gottfried Riemschneider , Johann Georg Linike as concertmaster and Johann Gottfried Vogler , who in the late 1710s at the Neukirche , the Collegium musicum and the Opera on Brühl had been engaged in Leipzig.
These musicians and the composer Bach took part in the performance of two cantatas for the prince's birthday on December 10, 1718: Praise the Lord, all his hosts in the Jakobskirche and, also based on a text by Hunold, the secular cantata Der Himmel dacht auf Anhalt's fame and luck , BWV 66.1. The music of both cantatas has not been preserved: They are known for their librettos, which were published by Hunold in 1719: at that time the court in the Principality of Anhalt-Köthen was averse to Calvinist and therefore lavish church music. Her flowing clouds , BWV 1150, a completely lost New Year's cantata in honor of Prince Leopold, is often enumerated with Bach's sacred music, but it can also have been a secular work.
Text and music
In his printed libretto, Christian Friedrich Hunold uses a thought from Psalm 119 ( Psalms 119, 175 EU ) as the theme of the cantata: “Live my soul so that it praises you. Your decisions should help me. ”The cantata itself opens with a dictum from Psalm 103 ( Psalms 103,21 EU ):“ Praise the LORD, all his hosts, his servants who do his will! ”. The cantata has six further movements: three recitatives , each followed by an aria .
No music has survived from the cantata, although it is believed that Bach used the first movement of the cantata in 1723 as a parody for the praises of the Lord, my soul, BWV 69a .
Web links
- Praise the Lord, all his hosts, BWV Anh.5 : Sheet Music and Audio Files in the International Music Score Library Project
- Praise the Lord, all his armies BWV 1147; BWV appendix 5; BC [B 30] Bach digital
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Christoph Wolff : Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician . W. W. Norton, 2001, ISBN 0-393-04825-X , pp. 197 ( scan ). And p. 560 in the Google book search.
- ^ Martin Geck : Johann Sebastian Bach: Life and Work. Translated by John Hargraves. 2006, ISBN 0-15-100648-2 , p. 105 ( preview in Google book search).
- ↑ Higuchi, Ryuichi (1990). Church cantatas of various, partly unknown destinations, Vol. 34: Critical Commentary of Series I: Cantatas of the New Bach Edition , ISMN 979-0-006-46307-7 (search in the DNB portal) , p. 43.
- ^ Russell H. Miles: Johann Sebastian Bach: An Introduction to His Life and Works. Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J. 1962, OCLC 600065 .
- ↑ Work your flowing clouds. In: Bach digital website.
- ↑ Werner Neumann (1964). Cantatas for the New Year and the Sunday after New Year, Vol. 4: Critical Commentary of Series I: Cantatas of the New Bach Edition, ISMN 979-0-006-46190-5 (search in the DNB portal) , p. 118.
- ↑ Praise the Lord, all his hosts: text. In: Bach digital website.
