SA vocal soli, SATB choir, 2 violins, viola, cello/contrabass, organ SKU: CA....(+)
SA vocal soli, SATB
choir, 2 violins, viola,
cello/contrabass, organ
SKU: CA.3207619
Composed by Wilhelm
Friedemann Bach. Edited
by Peter Wollny. This
edition: urtext.
Stuttgart Urtext Edition:
Bach vocal. German title:
Wohl dem, der den Herren
furchtet. Sacred vocal
music. Set of Orchestra
Parts. Composed 1752.
BR-WFB F 19. Duration 15
minutes. Carus Verlag #CV
32.076/19. Published by
Carus Verlag
(CA.3207619).
ISBN
9790007138974. Language:
German.
The cantata
is one of the few
surviving vocal works
which Wilhelm Friedemann
Bach composed during the
eighteen years which he
spent as organist and
director of music at the
Marktkirche in Halle
(1746-1764). This
cantata, published here
for the first time in
more than 250 years, was
written to introduce the
autumn sermons in 1752. A
musically and technically
demanding composition, it
consists of two
substantial choral
movements, partly
concertante and partly
polyphonic, based on two
biblical utterances. They
surround a sensitive,
while at the same time
strictly contrapuntal,
duet for soprano and alto
with basso continuo in
which God's sweet
teaching for the soul is
described as the true
manna of the faithful,
forming a link with the
sermons which are to
follow. In the
compactness of the
musical construction and
its intensity of
expression W. F. Bach was
clearly following in the
footsteps of his father
in this work. Score and
parts available
separately - see item
CA.3207600.
