Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750)
Let us watch him, let us guard him BWV 213
Hercules at the crossroads (Dramma per musica)
5 soloists (SAATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
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- For
- 5 soloists (SAATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
- Product Type
- Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
- Author / Composer
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Editor
- Uwe Wolf
- Product number
- 1747507
Description
What does Bach’s Christmas Oratorio have to do with Hercules? More than you might think at first glance. In the fall of 1733, with the eleventh birthday of the Saxon Crown Prince Friedrich Christian fast approaching, Johann Sebastian Bach composed the secular cantata Lasst uns sorgen, lasst uns wachen (Let us watch him, let us guard him), which he then performed on the prince’s birthday (September 5) with the Collegium Musicum in the garden of Zimmermann’s coffeehouse in Leipzig.
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