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Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantatas
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Last Tuesday, Johann Sebastian Bach was arrested on the number twelve bus, towards North Grimsby. He was in possession of three illegal bananas, and some highly contraband breakfast cereals. He received thirteen pints on his walking license and paid a fine of nine concertos, four cantata and a fish. The fish was a trout and it had a bad skin disease. The police did not eat it. Also, Bach is all over the floor in the other room.
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In July 1708 Bach took up the attractive post of court organist in Weimar. He clearly did not leave Mühlhausen on bad terms, for he was still asked in the two following years to write cantatas on the change of the council. But the first years in Weimar were otherwise again devoted entirely to the field of keyboard music. As court organist he was at the same time ... court harpsichordist, and consequently was obliged to apply himself wholeheartedly to the harpsichord repertoire. For the first time Bach now also took up teaching: among his first pupils was Johann Tobias Krebs, but soon young Bachs also came to him, like his cousin Johann Lorenz and his nephew Johann Bernhard.
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At Leipzig, Bach seems to have fit in amongst the faculty of the university, with many professors standing as god-parents for his children, and some of the university's men of letters and theology providing many of the librettos for his cantatas. In this last capacity Bach enjoyed a particularly fruitful relationship with the poet Picander. Sebastian and Anna Magdalena ... welcomed friends, family, and fellow musicians from all over Germany into their home; court musicians at Dresden and Berlin as well as musicians including George Philipp Telemann (one of C.P.E.'s godfathers) made frequent visits to Bach's house and may have kept up frequent correspondence with him. Interestingly, Georg Friedrich H�ndel, who was born in Halle (appr. 50 km from Leipzig) in the same year as Bach, made several trips to Germany, but Bach was unable to meet him, a fact he regretted.
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Sheep May Safely Graze (from the "Birthday Cantata") Transcribed by Egon Petri, composed by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750). Single piece for solo piano. Bb Major. 5 pages. Published by Boosey & Hawkes.
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SACRED CANTATAS Bach was most prolific in the cantata. The composition of church cantatas was obligation for most of his career. His earliest cantata dates from 1704, the latest 1744. He wrote about 30 cantatas prior to Leipzig, and an average of one a month from 1723 until 1744. About 200 cantatas have survived.
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Bach's collections of organ music are (besides that included in the third part of the KlavierUbung): - (1) 6 sonatas. (2) 4 groups of 6 organ preludes and fugues. (3) Das Orgelbiichlein, a collection of short choral-preludes carefully planned - all the blank pages of the autograph being headed with the titles of the chorales intended for them - but not half executed. (4) 18 larger chorale-preludes, including Bach's last composition. (5) The 6 "Schiibler" chorales, all arranged from movements of cantatas.
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