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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5 soloists (SAATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Product Type
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Author / Composer
Johann Sebastian Bach
Editor
Uwe Wolf
Product number
1747512
Lyrics
Christian Friedrich Henrici
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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