Composer : | Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685 - 1750) | ||||
Instrumentation : | Wind Quartet: Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon | ||||
Style : | Baroque | ||||
Arranger : | MAGATAGAN, MICHAEL (1960 - ) | ||||
Publisher : | MAGATAGAN, MICHAEL | ||||
Copyright : | Public Domain | ||||
Added by magataganm, 05 Jun 2015 Die Elenden sollen essen (The miserable shall eat), BWV 75, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. Bach composed the cantata for the First Sunday after Trinity and first performed it in the service in the Nikolaikirche on 30 May 1723, to take up his position as Thomaskantor. From then he was responsible for the education of the Thomanerchor, performances in the regular services in the Thomaskirche and the Nikolaikirche, and until 1725 also for one of two services in the Paulinerkirche. He started a project of composing one cantata for each Sunday and holiday of the liturgical year, termed by Christoph Wolff "an artistic undertaking on the largest scale". The autograph score is written neatly on non-Leipzig paper, probably while Bach lived still in Köthen. A Leipzig chronicle, "Acta Lipsiensium academica", reported the social event: "... führte ... Hr. Joh. Sebastian Bach ... mit gutem applauso seine erste Music auf" (... performed ... with good applause his first music). "Good applause" means "great approval" rather than clapping of hands. A different translation renders the note as "... the new Cantor and Director of the Collegium Musicum, Herr Johann Sebastian Bach, who has come hither from the Prince's court of Cöthen, produced his first music here with great success." The music of the two stanzas of the chorale is identical. The tune is not a simple four-part setting as in most of Bach's later cantatas, but the voices are embedded in a concerto of the orchestra, lead by violin I and oboe I. The instrumental theme is derived from the first line of the chorale tune. Source: Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Elenden_sollen_essen, _BWV_75) Although originally scored for four vocal soloists (soprano, alto, tenor and bass), a four-part choir, oboe, violin, viola, and basso continuo, I created this arrangement for Double Woodwind Quartet (2 Flutes, 2 Oboes - one solo, 2 Bb Clarinets & 2 Bassoons). Sheet central : | Die Elenden sollen essen (8 sheet music) | |
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