Zerreißet, zersprenget, zertrümmert die Gruft or Der zufriedengestellte Aeolus, BWV 205.1, BWV 205, is a secular cantata or dramma per musica by Johann Sebastian Bach. It was written for the name day
Aeolus, a Greek god of the wind
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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
Zerreißet, zersprenget, zertrümmert die Gruft, BWV 205
…Zerreißet, zersprenget, zertrümmert die Gruft BWV 205.1 BWV 205 Dramma per musica Secular cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach Aeolus, a Greek god of the wind Other name Der zufriedengestellte Aeolus Text by Picander Performed 3 August 1725 (1725-08-03…
Schlosskirche in Weimar (c. 1660, burned 1774) where Bach composed and performed church cantatas monthly from 1714 to 1717