Torn, shattered, smashed the tomb
| Bach cantata | |
|---|---|
| Torn, shattered, smashed the tomb | |
| BWV: | 205 |
| Occasion: | name day |
| Year of origin: | 1725 |
| Place of origin: | Leipzig |
| Genus: | Secular cantata |
| Solo : | BTAS |
| Instruments : | Trom; Whistle; Oboes; St. Bc |
| AD : | approx. 40 min |
| text | |
| Picander | |
| List of Bach cantatas | |
Tear up, shattered, smashed the crypt ( BWV 205) is a secular cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach .
Emergence
The text of the cantata comes from Christian Friedrich Henrici, called Picander . The cantata was a commission from Leipzig students for the extremely popular university professor August Friedrich Müller . For his name day on August 3, 1725, it was conceived as “Dramma per musica” and performed as a cantata with the title “The Satisfied Aeolus” in Leipzig.
Subject
Pallas Athene gives a feast in honor of Professor Müller. But she fears that Aeolus, the god of the winds, could let go of his heavy autumn storms in August and thus destroy the festival. With the help of Zephyrus , the god of mild winds, and the goddess of the fruit blessing Pomona , however, she manages to appease Aeolus. The celebration can also take place thanks to the reference to the honor of the honored professor. After a disturbance of the ceremony has been averted, those present agree to a common "vivat" on the learned man.
occupation
- Pallas Athene ( soprano )
- Pomona ( old )
- Zephyrus ( tenor )
- Aeolus ( bass )
- Orchestra: trumpet I-III, timpani , transverse flute I / II, oboe I / II, violin I / II, viola , viola d'amore , viola da gamba , basso continuo .
Specialty
In the final choral movement “Vivat! August, August vivat! ”Is a tribute to Professor August Müller. The two kings to whom Bach wrote cantatas of homage were also called August. In 1734 the cantata BWV 205 became the cantata “Blast noise, you enemies! strengthen the power ”(BWV 205a) revised. The occasion is the coronation ceremony of King August III. The final tutti contains the same exclamation, this time, however, for the king.
literature
- Alfred Dürr : Johann Sebastian Bach: The Cantatas. Bärenreiter, Kassel 1999, ISBN 3-7618-1476-3
- Werner Neumann : Handbook of JS Bach's Cantatas , 1947, 5th edition 1984, ISBN 3-7651-0054-4
- Hans-Joachim Schulze: The Bach Cantatas: Introductions to all of Johann Sebastian Bach's cantatas . Leipzig: Evangelical publishing company; Stuttgart: Carus-Verlag 2006 (Edition Bach-Archiv Leipzig) ISBN 3-374-02390-8 (Evang. Verl.-Anst.), ISBN 3-89948-073-2 (Carus-Verl.)
- Christoph Wolff, Ton Koopman : The world of Bach cantatas . Verlag JB Metzler, Stuttgart, Weimar 2006, ISBN 978-3-476-02127-4
