Cantata
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A cantata is a vocal composition with instrumental accompaniment, typically in several movements.
Soloquartet and strings
Bach cantata
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The cantatas composed by Johann Sebastian Bach, known as Bach cantatas, are a body of work consisting of over 200 surviving independent works, and at least several dozen that are considered lost. As f
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…some cantatas for only one solo singer (ex. BWV 51). A handful of his cantatas, such as Tritt auf die Glaubensbahn, BWV 152 (1714), were written as dialogue cantatas. These cantatas represented interactions between two parties, mostly between Jesus, played by a bass, and the Soul, played by a soprano. Christoph…
Schlosskirche in Weimar (c. 1660, burned 1774) where Bach composed and performed church cantatas monthly from 1714 to 1717