We have a new Oberkeet
| Bach cantata | |
|---|---|
| We have a new Oberkeet | |
| BWV: | 212 |
| Occasion: | Birthday party |
| Year of origin: | 1742 |
| Place of origin: | Leipzig |
| Genus: | Secular cantata |
| Solo : | SB |
| Instruments : | Flute; Horn; St. Bc |
| AD : | approx. 30 min |
| text | |
| Christian Friedrich Henrici | |
| List of Bach cantatas | |
Mer hahn en neue Oberkeet ( BWV 212) is one of the most famous secular cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach . It is known as the “Peasant Cantata”; Bach's original name was “Cantate burlesque”. Its title is in high German "We have a new government".
Emergence
The text of the cantata comes from Christian Friedrich Henrici (called Picander ) and was written for August 30, 1742. On this day the heir, feudal lord and court lord Carl Heinrich von Dieskau , electoral Saxon chamberlain, celebrated at the manor Kleinzschocher near Leipzig his 36th birthday with a big fireworks display and at the same time, as was customary at the time, accepted the homage of the peasants under him.
In his capacity as head of the city drink tax collection, wine inspector and visir in the Leipzig district, Picander had the district tax inspector Dieskau as his superior. His text has folk, coarse and sometimes ironic features and alludes to a number of local people and events of the time (e.g. violation of fishing law), with the neighboring towns of Knauthain and Cospuden being mentioned.
It is believed that Picander asked Bach to translate his poetry into music. The peasant cantata is the Bach cantata with the latest ascertainable date of origin.
Subject
There are celebrations at which the chamberlain has beer poured out. This is the occasion for a conversation between a farmer (bass) who is not mentioned by name and the farmer Mieke (soprano), whose dialogue after the purely instrumental opening piece shapes the entire cantata. They are happy about the festival, exchange partly ambiguous, partly unambiguous erotic offers and also talk about the machinations of the tax collector ( Schösser ); the main theme, however, is the praise of the landlord Dieskau; his wife and her thrift are also mentioned. In some places, Upper Saxon dialect is used ("Guschel" = mouth, "Dahlen" = love game, "Satchel" = belly, "prinkel" = little, "new shock" = 60 groschen).
occupation
- a farmer ( bass )
- Mieke, a peasant woman ( soprano )
- Three-part string ensemble consisting of violin , viola and basso continuo , to which the transverse flute , horn and second violin are added in one movement each .
particularities
According to the character of the text, Bach created a relatively simple composition with short sentences and mostly simple accompaniment. Several times he resorted to popular dance forms and folk melodies (for example the second, fast part "With you and me in the feather bed, with you and me on the straw" of the grandfather dance ) as well as parts from his own earlier pieces (sentence 14 from BWV Appendix 11 and Sentence 20 from BWV 201/7).
The overture consists of a rough sequence of various courtly dances without transitions, regardless of changes in time and key (from A major to A minor and back again). This kind of rural composition is sometimes interpreted as an ironic allusion to the subject on the part of Bach.
The aria Your growth is solid and laugh with pleasure! originally comes from the cantata The dispute between Phoebus and Pan , where Pan recites them with the words To dance, to jump, so the heart shakes .
literature
- Alfred Dürr : Johann Sebastian Bach: The Cantatas . 7th edition. Bärenreiter, Kassel 1999, ISBN 3-7618-1476-3 .
- Werner Neumann : Handbook of the cantatas by JS Bach. Breitkopf and Härtel, Wiesbaden 1971, ISBN 3-7651-0054-4 .
- Hans-Joachim Schulze : The Bach Cantatas. Introductions to all of Johann Sebastian Bach's cantatas. Evangelische Verlags-Anstalt, Leipzig, ISBN 3-374-02390-8 ; Carus-Verlag, Stuttgart 2006 ISBN 3-89948-073-2 (Edition Bach Archive Leipzig).
- Christoph Wolff , Ton Koopman : The world of Bach cantatas. Verlag JB Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2006, ISBN 978-3-476-02127-4 .
Recordings
selection
- Masaaki Suzuki , Bach Collegium Japan , Mojca Erdmann , Dominik Wörner , BWV 203, 209, 212, BIS 2016.
- Live recording as part of Bach: vocal as video in HD . Carmela Konrad soprano, Benjamin Appl , baritone, Ensemble Stiftsbarock Stuttgart under Kay Johannsen , Stuttgart Castle Church, June 2014
Web links
- Data, text and sources at Bach Digital
- Mer hahn en neue Oberkeet, BWV 212 : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
- Structure and complete text of the cantata
