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unusual facts about BWV



Christian Friedrich Witt

While on his deathbed, Johann Sebastian Bach was commissioned to substitute for him and perform a Passiontide work for the court chapel (the Weimarer Passion BWV deest (BC D 1)).

Collegium Musicum Den Haag

l'europe réunie (ORF Edition Alte Musik) Georg Philipp Telemann: Wasser-Ouvertüre in C / Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto for 2 violins, 2 recorders, 2 oboes, bassoon & strings RV 566 / Johann Sebastian Bach: Concerto for harpsichord, 2 recorders, 2 violins, viola & b.c. BWV 1057 / Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer: Concerto armonico Nr. 5 / Jean-Féry Rebel: Fantaisie

Entfliehet, verschwindet, entweichet, ihr Sorgen, BWV 249a

J.S. Bach: Schäferkantate BWV 249a · Doppelkonzert nach BWV 1060, Edith Mathis, Hetty Plümacher, Theo Altmeyer, Jakob Stämpfli, Gächinger Kantorei & Figuralchor der Gedächtniskirche Stuttgart, Bach-Collegium Stuttgart, conductor Helmuth Rilling, Cantate-Musicaphon 1967

Harpsichord concerto

The concerto transcriptions Bach made for harpsichord are listed as BWV 972–987 (see List of compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach).

It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown

In the second mall scene, Peppermint Patty, Marcie and Snoopy dance to a band quartet music box including an angel, a triplet band, and a spinning duck carousel, all which play Johann Sebastian Bach's "Menuet from the Anna Magdalena Notebook (BWV Anh. 116.)."

Juliane Banse

She gave the world premiere of Bach’s recently discovered aria, Alles mit Gott und nichts ohn' ihn BWV 1127 with András Schiff and Quatuor Mosaïques.

Lituus

One of the last compositions orchestrated for the mediaeval lituus was Bach's motet O Jesu Christ, meins Lebens Licht (BWV 118).

Lorenz Christoph Mizler

The entry requirements of this society resulted in both the famous 1746/1748 Haussmann portrait of Bach and his Canonic Variations on "Vom Himmel hoch da komm' ich her" for organ, BWV 769.

Magnificat

Vivaldi composed a setting of the Latin text for soloists, choir and orchestra, also Johann Sebastian Bach in his "Magnificat", BWV 243, for the Christmas vespers of 1723.

Mein Odem ist schwach, BWV 222

Mein Odem ist schwach (My breath is weak), BWV 222, is a church cantata composed by Johann Ernst Bach II.

Picander

Most notably their collaboration was on religious works in a Lutheran tradition such as the St Matthew Passion (BWV 244).

However, they also produced secular works such as the Coffee Cantata (Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht, BWV 211).

Prelude and Fugue in A minor, BWV 543

Prelude and Fugue in A minor, BWV 543 (an alternate version is numbered BWV 543a) is a piece of organ music written by Johann Sebastian Bach sometime around his years as court organist to the Duke of Saxe-Weimar (1708–1717).

Prelude in C minor

Prelude in C minor, by Johann Sebastian Bach, from the Prelude and Fugue in C minor, BWV 847, from Book I of the Well Tempered Clavier

Progressive tonality

While J.S. Bach in his instrumental and orchestral suites would often place every movement in the same key (see, for example, the solo cello Suites, BWV 1007-1012 or the equally homotonal A minor solo flute partita BWV 1013), in a work like his St Matthew Passion he felt able to 'progress' from an E minor start to an ending in C minor, and his Mass in B minor actually ends in D major.

Schau

Schau, lieber Gott, wie meine Feind, BWV 153 ("See, dear God, how my enemies"), BWV 153, a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach


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