O fair day, desired time

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Bach cantata
O fair day, desired time
BWV: 210
Occasion: wedding
Year of origin: 1738?
Place of origin: Leipzig
Genus: cantata
Solo : S.
Instruments : Fl; Oa; Str; BC
text
unknown
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O sweet day, desired time ( BWV 210) is a cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach . He composed it in Leipzig for a wedding.

Story and words

Bach wrote the cantata for soprano solo in Leipzig for a wedding. All five arias and two recitatives go back to his homage cantata O pleasant melody . It is not known for what occasion Bach wrote the cantata. Werner Neumann assigned it to the wedding of Anna Regina Bose and Friedrich Heinrich Graf (April 3, 1742) and that of Christina Sibylla Bose and Johann Zacharias Richter (February 6, 1744), Herrmann von Hase to the wedding of Johanna Catharina Amalie Schatz and Friedrich Gottlob Zoller (August 11, 1746). According to the Leipzig musicologist Michael Maul , it could have been the wedding of the Prussian court councilor Georg E. Stahl (1741). The cantata text by an unknown poet speaks to an influential man who appreciates music. The parts for soprano and continuo are handwritten, probably as a present for the bride and groom. The text speaks of the relationship between music and conjugal love and ends in praise of the groom as the patron of music.

The cantata was probably performed at least twice during Bach's lifetime.

Occupation and structure

The cantata is occupied by soprano , flauto traverso , oboe d'amore , two violins , viola and basso continuo . Bach referred to it as Cantata a Voce sola .

  1. Recitativo: O sweet day, desired time
  2. Aria (oboe d'amore, strings): Play, you soulful songs
  3. Recitativo: Yes, stop, you lively strings
  4. Aria (oboe d'amore, violin): Rest here, dull notes
  5. Recitativo: This is how one believes that music is seductive
  6. Aria (flute): Be silent, you flutes, be silent, you tones
  7. Recitativo: what air? what grave?
  8. Aria (oboe d'amore, 2 violins): Great patron, your pleasure
  9. Recitativo (flute, oboe d'amore, strings): Very dear man, so go on
  10. Aria: Be happy

music

Bach used all five arias, the first recitative and the beginning of the last recitative from his homage cantata O pleasant melody . The parts for soprano and flute are demanding, they require virtuosity in coloratura and trills and a three-stroke c sharp from the soprano . The movements are orchestrated differently in order to provide variety despite the restriction to one singing voice. The arias show a "decrescendo" (Alfred Dürr), a reduction in the number of instruments towards the central silence, their flutes, silent, their tones in which the singing voice and the flute perform as if in a duet. The following arias lead to a festive end in a crescendo .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Szymon Paczkowski: Bach and the Story of an “Aria tempo di Polonaise” for Joachim Friedrich Flemming. ( Memento of the original from September 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. American Bach Society, 2006. (Institute of Musicology, Warsaw University) (English) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.americanbachsociety.org