. Programme . 5. 5. PIERCE CO. Importers and Grocers COR. TRLMONT AND BLACON STREETSAND COPLEY SQUARE BOSTON :: :: BROOKLINE. 471 Duke Christian of Saxe-Weissenfels celebrated his thirty-fifthbirthday on February 23, 1716. On that day there was a huntingparty. Duke Wilhelm Ernst of Saxe-Weimar, his cousin, commis-sioned his Hofkonzertmeister Bach to compose a cantata, words bySalomo Franck, poet and court official at Weimar, to be used inthe ducal hunting-lodge as table music. Bach wrote ten numberswith connecting recitatives. The subject was treated semi-dramati-cally. The soloists represente
. Programme . 5. 5. PIERCE CO. Importers and Grocers COR. TRLMONT AND BLACON STREETSAND COPLEY SQUARE BOSTON :: :: BROOKLINE. 471 Duke Christian of Saxe-Weissenfels celebrated his thirty-fifthbirthday on February 23, 1716. On that day there was a huntingparty. Duke Wilhelm Ernst of Saxe-Weimar, his cousin, commis-sioned his Hofkonzertmeister Bach to compose a cantata, words bySalomo Franck, poet and court official at Weimar, to be used inthe ducal hunting-lodge as table music. Bach wrote ten numberswith connecting recitatives. The subject was treated semi-dramati-cally. The soloists represented Diana; Endymion, whom Diana puttemporarily aside in favor of Duke Christian; Pan, god of the coun-tryside; and Pales, goddess of agricultural animals. To Pales wasgiven an air, Weil die Wollenreichen Heerden. The musical ma-terial of the accompaniment of Mein glaubiges Herze, frohlockeis found in this air, while the solo voice part is wholly different fromthat familiar melody. This hunting cantata is known as Was mirbehagt, or Diana und Endymion. Writing the cantata Also hat Gott die Welt geliebt, Bach tookmatter from
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