The St Matthew Passion (German: Matthäus-Passion), BWV 244, is a Passion, a sacred oratorio written by Johann Sebastian Bach in 1727 for solo voices, double choir and double orchestra, with libretto by Picander.It sets the 26th and 27th chapters of the Gospel of Matthew (in the Luther Bible) to music, with interspersed chorales and arias.It is widely regarded as one of the …

The Christmas Oratorio (German: Weihnachts-Oratorium), BWV 248, is an oratorio by Johann Sebastian Bach intended for performance in church during the Christmas season.It was written for the Christmas season of 1734 and incorporates music from earlier compositions, including three secular cantatas written during 1733 and 1734 and a largely lost church cantata, BWV 248a.

The Musical Offering (German: Musikalisches Opfer or Das Musikalische Opfer), BWV 1079, is a collection of keyboard canons and fugues and other pieces of music by Johann Sebastian Bach, all based on a single musical theme given to him by Frederick the Great (King Frederick II of Prussia), to whom they are dedicated. They were published in September 1747. The Ricercar a …

Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht (Be still, stop chattering), BWV 211, also known as the Coffee Cantata, is a secular cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach.He composed it probably between 1732 and 1735. Although classified as a cantata, it is essentially a miniature comic opera.In a satirical commentary, the cantata amusingly tells of an addiction to (or rather dependence on) coffee

Johann Sebastian Bach (Eisenach, 1685. március 31. (az akkor még ott használt Julián naptár szerint március 21.) – Lipcse, 1750. július 28.) barokk kori német zeneszerző, orgonista, hegedűművész, a zeneművészet kiemelkedő egyénisége, a protestáns egyházi zene jeles képviselője. A 17. század elejéig visszavezethető Bach dinasztia legjelentősebb alakja volt.

The digits above the notes indicate the specified chord in the system of figured bass; where digits are separated by comma, they indicate different options taken in different variations.. Every third variation in the series of 30 is a canon, following an ascending pattern.Thus, variation 3 is a canon at the unison, variation 6 is a canon at the second (the second entry begins the interval of a ...

Entstehung. Dem Werk liegt eine Dichtung von Picander zugrunde, die dieser 1732 veröffentlichte. Vermutlich entstand die Kantate 1734, um im Zimmermannschen Kaffeehaus in Leipzig aufgeführt zu werden. Der Text muss zur damaligen Zeit populär gewesen sein, da er neben Bach von mindestens zwei weiteren Komponisten aufgegriffen wurde, wobei nur Bachs …

Titles of the cantatas. Although the German term Bachkantate (Bach cantata) became very familiar, Bach himself rarely used the title Cantata in his manuscripts. In Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen, BWV 56, he wrote Cantata à Voce Sola e Stromenti (Cantata for solo voice and instruments).Another cantata in which Bach used that term is Ich bin vergnügt mit meinem …

Bach wrote the St Mark Passion, BWV 247 for 1731. Picander's libretto for the Passion was once thought to have been destroyed in the bombing of Dresden in World War II, but the recovered copy seems to show that the work was a parody of music from the so-called Trauer-Ode, Laß, Fürstin, laß noch einen Strahl, BWV 198, and that some choruses were used also in the …

バッハの受難曲. バッハのマタイ受難曲 (Matthäus-Passion) は新約聖書「マタイによる福音書」の26、27章のキリストの受難を題材にし、聖句、伴奏付きレチタティーヴォ、アリア、コラールによって構成された音楽作品である。 BWV244。台本はピカンダー（Picanderは「かささぎ男」という意味の筆名で ...