Besides Martin Luther’s great significance for Protestant church song, the theologian and poet Paul Gerhardt (1607-1676) should also be mentioned, especially in relation to Bach’s work. Gerhardt lived in the
The cycle of chorale cantatas composed by Bach in 1724/1725 focused on the heritage of Lutheran songs. Each of the 40 cantatas is based on the stanzas of the song
Bach’s chorale cantata ‘Was willst du dich betrüben’ (BWV 107) differs from all the other chorale cantatas of the 1724/25 volume. What could be the reason for this?
Read & Listen is an online mini-course, leading you step by step through the song and cantata.
From 1702, Johann Christoph Olearius began to build his Song Library. The main aim was to identify sources of the original song texts and the correct names of the song
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