Die Zeit, die Tag und Jahre macht, BWV 134a
Johann Sebastian Bach composed the secular cantata Die Zeit, die Tag und Jahre macht in Köthen, Germany, between 1717 and 1723. Bach wrote the work as a serenata for the celebration of New Year’s Day 1719. The music is close to baroque opera, including French dances. The cantata has been performed and recorded rarely, compared with other Bach cantatas.
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Johann Sebastian Bach composed the secular cantata Die Zeit, die Tag und Jahre macht in Köthen, Germany, between 1717 and 1723. Bach wrote the work as a serenata for the celebration of New Year’s Day 1719. The libretto by Christian Friedrich Hunold takes the form of a dialogue between two allegorical figures, Time and Divine Providence, representing the past and future. The music is close to baroque opera, including French dances. The cantata has been performed and recorded rarely, compared with other Bach cantatas. It has been used for congratulatory events such as the 80th birthday of Bach scholar Alfred Dürr, when the cantata title was chosen as that of an international conference about chronology in Bach’s music. The text has also been translated in a singable version as “Since Heaven Cared for Anhalt’s Fame and Bliss” The music was not printed in his lifetime, like most of Bach’s works, and remained in his manuscript and manuscript manuscript until the end of his life. It is considered one of the most important works of the Baroque era, along with Bach’s Symphony No. 1, BWV 134a, and Bach’s Cantata for Three Days of Easter, Ein Herz, das seinen Jesum lebend weiß (Ein Herz und Der Glimm dacht a Ruhm undück), BWV 66 (1724-1725).
It was written for the Third Day of Easter 1724, but Bach later used it as the basis for a church cantata for Easter 1725. Bach was in the service of the court of Leopold, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen. He had to write Cantatas only for the court’s two secular feast days: the prince’s birthday and New Year’s Day. He wrote Die Zeit,. die Tag, macht as a congratulatory cantata for New year’s Day of 1719, when he was Kapellmeister in K Öthen, directing a qualified musical ensemble. The character of the music is similar to opera of the period and includes dance-like music. Most movements are duets of solo voices, an alto as Divine Providence and a tenor as Time. The singers are supported by an instrumental ensemble of two oboes, two violins, viola and continuo. Bach collaborated with Hunold on several cantatAS between 1718 and 1720. Hunold published the text in the collection Auserlesene und theils noch nie gedruckte Gedichte unterschickte unter Berühmten und geschickten Männer in Halle, about 30 kilometres from Kö then.
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