Close the tomb! you mourning bells
Bach cantata | |
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Close the tomb! you mourning bells | |
BWV: | Appendix 16 |
Occasion: | uncertain |
Year of origin: | 1735 |
Place of origin: | Leipzig |
Genus: | cantata |
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Balthasar Hoffmann | |
List of Bach cantatas |
Close the tomb! Her funeral bells ( BWV Appendix 16) is a lost funeral cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach , which he composed in Leipzig and probably performed in 1735. The text is by Balthasar Hoffmann . The music is lost; Whether Johann Sebastian Bach was the composer is unclear due to a lack of evidence.
Web links
- Close the tomb! Ye Mourning Bells, BWV Anh . 16 : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
- Close the tomb! her funeral bells BWV Anh. 16 Bach digital
- Musopen : Bach closes the crypt! their funeral bells, BWV Anh. 16. About this piece. In: musopen.org. Musopen, p. 5 , accessed November 23, 2019 .
- Peter Bach: Close the crypt, you mourning bells. Funeral cantata for Duchess Hedwig von Merseburg. In: Bach.de. Peter Bach, p. 1 , accessed on November 23, 2019 .