Lobet den Herrn, alle seine Heerscharen, BWV Anh. 5

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St. Jakob, Köthen, where the cantata Lobet den Herrn, alle seine Heerscharen was performed in December 1718.

Lobet den Herrn, alle seine Heerscharen (Praise ye the Lord, all ye of his great armies),

BWV 1147, BWV Anh. 5, is a church cantata text by Christian Friedrich Hunold which was performed, most likely in a setting by Johann Sebastian Bach, for the twenty-fourth birthday of Prince Leopold of Anhalt-Köthen on 10 December 1718. The composition is lost, but its libretto survives in a 1719 print.[1]

History

Oper am Brühl (Leipzig) in the late 1710s.[1][2][3]

These musicians, and Bach, participated in the performance of two cantatas on the Prince's birthday, 10 December 1718: Lobet den Herrn, alle seine Heerscharen at

Ihr wallenden Wolken, BWV 1150, an entirely lost New Year's Day cantata in honor of Prince Leopold, is often grouped with Bach's sacred music, but it may as well have been a secular work.[1][2][4][5][6][7][8]

Text and music

In his printed libretto, Hunold indicates Psalms 119:175, "Let my soul live, and it shall praise thee; and let thy judgments help me", as the theme of the cantata. The cantata itself opens with a dictum, Psalms 103:21: "Bless ye the Lord, all ye his hosts; ye ministers of his, that do his pleasure." The cantata has six further movements: three recitatives, each of which is followed by an aria.[9]

No music of the cantata survives, although it is deemed possible that Bach

parodied the cantata's first movement in 1723 as the opening chorus for his cantata Lobe den Herrn, meine Seele, BWV 69.1.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Work 01313, Lobet den Herrn, alle seine Heerscharen, at Bach Digital website.
  2. ^
    ISBN 039304825X
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  3. ISBN 9780151006489, p. 105
  4. ^ Work 00083, Der Himmel dacht auf Anhalts Ruhm und Glück (serenata), at Bach Digital website.
  5. ISMN
     9790006463077, p. 43.
  6. ^ Miles, Russell H. (1962). Johann Sebastian Bach: An Introduction to His Life and Works. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall. OCLC 600065.
  7. ^ Work 01150, Ihr wallenden Wolken, at Bach Digital website.
  8. ISMN
     9790006461905, p. 118.
  9. ^ Lobet den Herrn, alle seine Heerscharen: text at Bach Digital website.
Church cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach by chronology
Preceded by
Weimar cantatas
 Köthen church cantatas
1717–23 		Succeeded by


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