Cantata Cycle 1716-1717 (Telemann)
The Cantata Cycle 1716-1717 (also known as the Concertante Cycle) is a series of cantatas written by Georg Philipp Telemann while he was Frankfurt's Director of Municipal Music. In addition to composing music for civic occasions, he conducted and composed for several churches in the city, including the Katharinenkirche and the Barfüßerkirche where he was Kapellmeister.[1] During his time in Frankfurt (1712–1721), he composed five new year-long cycles of sacred music for the Sundays and holy days of the ecclesiastical calendar.[2] He also completed several cycles which he had begun earlier in Eisenach where he had been the leader of the court singers. After taking up his post in Hamburg in 1721, he continued to supply Frankfurt with cantata cycles — one complete cycle every three years, as part of an arrangement to maintain his citizenship of that city.
Scores
Between 1712 and Telemann’s death in 1767 copyists in Frankfurt produced a large collection of performance materials for his religious cantatas, which are currently preserved in Frankfurt's Stadt- und Universitätsbibliothek (City and University Library). There are relatively few of these scores available in modern editions. However, the Frankfurt Telemann Society has begun a project in conjunction with Habsburger Verlag to publish modern editions of the scores, particularly the early Frankfurt cantata cycles. These appear in the Frankfurter Telemann-Ausgaben series.[3]
List of cantatas in the 1716-1717 cycle
Feast Day | TWV Number | Title | Sources | Scoring | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Advent 1 | TWV 1:1234 | Saget der Tochter Zion | Frankfurt Ff 1314a | (S)ATB (Soprano Rip. missing) | 1 sets of parts (König) |
Advent 2 | TWV 1:811 | Huetet euch, dass eure Herzen | Frankfurt Ff 1138 | SATB | 2 sets of scores (Beck, König, Fischer), 2 sets of parts (Set 1: Bodinus, Set 2: Seibart, Copyist "60b," König), |
Advent 3 | TWV 1:1129 | Mein Kind, willtu Gottes Diener sein | Frankfurt Ff 1262 | SATB | 0 sets of scores, 2 sets of parts |
Advent 4 | TWV 1:914 | Ihr seid alle Gottes Kinder | Frankfurt Ff 1200 | SATB | 2 sets of scores, 2 sets of parts |
Christmas | TWV 1:1450 | Uns ist ein Kind geboren | Frankfurt Ff 1414 | SATB | 1 sets of scores, 2 sets of parts |
Christmas | TWV 1:1430 | Und da die Engel von ihnen gen Himmel führen | Frankfurt Ff 1430 | SATB | 1 sets of scores, 2 sets of parts |
Christmas 3 | TWV 1:1017 | Kündlich gross ist das Geheimnis | Frankfurt Ff 1017 | SATB | 1 sets of scores, 1 sets of parts |
Sunday after Christmas | TWV deest | Dancket denn Herrn denn er ist freundlich | Frankfurt Ff 814 | SATB | 1 sets of scores, 2 sets of parts |
Feast of the Circumcision of Christ | TWV 1:1726 | Wünschet Jerusalem Gluck | Frankfurt Ff 1545 | SATB | 0 sets of scores, 1 sets of parts |
Sunday after New Year's | TWV 1:26 | Ach Herr! Wie ist meiner Feinde so viel | Frankfurt Ff 739 | SATB | 2 sets of scores, 2 sets of parts |
Epiphany | TWV 1:1958 | Lobet den Herrn, alles Heiden (Psalm 117) | Frankfurt Ff 1958 | SATB | 1 sets of scores, 1 sets of parts |
1st Sunday after Epiphany | TWV 1:431 | Eins bitte ich vom Herrn | Frankfurt Ff 957 | SATB | 2 sets of scores, 2 sets of parts |
2nd Sunday after Epiphany | TWV 1:332 | Die Ehe soll ehrlich gehalten werden | Frankfurt Ff 911 | SATB | 1 sets of scores, 2 sets of parts |
3rd Sunday after Epiphany | TWV 1:1394 | Spricht der Herr aber also, Ich habe nicht Lust | Frankfurt Ff 1394 | SATB | 2 sets of scores, 2 sets of parts |
4th Sunday after Epiphany | TWV 1:362 | Die, so ihr den Herrn fürchten | Frankfurt Ff 920 | SATB | 0 sets of scores, 2 sets of parts |
Purification of the Virgin | TWV 1:245 | Der Gerechte kommt um | Frankfurt Ff 864 | SATB | **** |
5th Sunday after Epiphany | TWV 1:1273 | Seid nüchtern und wachet | Frankfurt Ff 1334 | SATB | 1 sets of scores, 1 sets of parts |
6th Sunday after Epiphany | TWV deest | Jesus meine Freude | MISSING | **** | MISSING (Mentioned in a 1771 inventory |
7th Sunday after Epiphany | TWV 1:1448 | Unser Wandel aber ist im Himmel | MISSING | **** | **** |
Septuagesima | TWV 1:501 | Es ist ein großer Gewinn, wer gottselig | Frankfurt Ff 985 | SATB | 2 sets of scores, 2 sets of parts |
Sexagesima | TWV 1:1295 | Selig sind, die Gottes Wort hören | Frankfurt Ff 1344 | SATB | 1 sets of scores (Beck), 2 sets of parts (Parts Set 1: König Part 1) (Parts Set 2:Beck, Fischer) |
Estomihi | TWV 1:1316 | Siehe, das ist Gottes Lamm | Frankfurt Ff 1361 | SATB | 1 sets of scores (Beck), 2 sets of parts (Parts set 1 Copyists "60a," König, Seibart) (Parts set 2: Copyist "88") |
Invocavit | TWV 1:1279 | Seid stark in dem Herrn und in seiner Macht | Frankfurt Ff 1338 | SATB | 2 sets of scores (Beck, König), 2 sets of parts (Parts set 1:Beck)(Parts set 2: Seibert, Copyist "60b," König) |
Reminiscere [4] | TWV 1:843 | Ich hatte viel Bekümmernisse in meinem Herzen | Frankfurt Ff 1156 | SATB | 2 sets of scores, 2 sets of parts (Parts set 1: Copyist "64," Seibert,König )(Parts set 2: Beck, Copyist "T26," Copyist "88".) |
Oculi [5] | TWV 1:586 | Gedenket an Jesum, der ein solches Widersprechen | Frankfurt Ff 1032 | SATB | 2 sets of scores (Beck, König), 2 sets of parts (Parts set 1: Becker, Fischer)(Parts set 2: König, Seibert, Copyist "82c,".) |
Laetare | TWV 1:156 | Da Jesus nun merckte, daß kommen würden | Frankfurt Ff 810 | SATB | 2 sets of scores (Beck), 2 sets of parts |
Judica | TWV 1:367 | Die Wahrheit fallt auf die Gasse | Frankfurt Ff 923 | SATB | 2 sets of scores (Beck), 2 sets of parts |
Palm Sunday | TWV 1:800 | Christus hat gelitten für uns, und uns. | Frankfurt Ff 141 | SATB | 2 sets of scores (Beck), 2 sets of parts |
Feast of the Annunciation | TWV 1:1326 | Siehe, eine Jungfrau ist schwanger | Frankfurt Ff 1326 | SATB | 2 sets of scores (Beck), 2 sets of parts |
Easter | TWV 1:816 | Ich bin der Erste und der Letzte | Frankfurt Ff 1143 | SATB | 2 sets of scores (Beck), 2 sets of parts |
Recording
The cantata for the Second Sunday in Lent from this cycle, Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis TWV 1:843 can be heard on:
- Telemann: Cantatas - (Veronika Winter, Lena Susanne Norin, Jan Kobow, Ekkehard Abele; Rheinische Kantorei; Das Kleine Konzert; conductor: Hermann Max). CPO 7771952.
Set to a poem by Erdmann Neumeister, Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis tells a story from the Gospel of St.Mark in which a woman asks Jesus to heal her daughter who is possessed by the devil.[6]
References and notes
- ↑ Georg Philipp Telemann Timeline University of Magdeburg
- ↑ Biography of Georg Philipp Telemann on baroquemusic.org
- ↑ Habsburger Verlag Archived December 31, 2006, at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ 2nd Sunday of Lent
- ↑ 3rd Sunday of Lent
- ↑ Mark Sealey, Review of Telemann: Cantatas (CPO 7771952), Music-Web International, August 2007.
External links
- Robert Poliquin, Université du Québec, Extensive list of Telemann's religious cantatas (in French) including the instruments used in the score. They are indexed by both the title and by the Sunday or holy day for which they were written.