Klopstocks Morgengesang am Schopfungsfeste
by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Choir - Sheet Music

SS vocal soli, SSTB choir, 2 flutes, 2 violins, 2 violas, cello, violone, basso continuo

SKU: CA.3323913

Composed by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. Edited by Bertil van Boer. Klopstocks Morgengesang am Schopfungsfeste. Sacred vocal music, Cantatas. Single Part, Viola. Composed 1783. BR-CPEB G 1 (Wq 239). 8 pages. Duration 12 minutes. Packard Humanities Institute #CV 33.239/13. Published by Packard Humanities Institute (CA.3323913).

ISBN 9790007212292. Text language: German. Text: Klopstock, Friedrich Gottlieb. Text by Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock.

Vol. VI, 4 of the C.P.E. Bach Complete Edition, edited by the Packard Humanities Institute The "Morgengesang am Schopfungsfeste" Wq 239 resulted from the personal friendship between the poet F.G. Klopstock and the composer. It exudes the spirit of the end of the 18th century like almost no other work. In keeping with the spirit of the Enlightenment, a natural event - sunrise - is used as an allegory for the resurrection, giving expression to it. The natural spectacle also forms the starting point for Bach's composition, an eight-part, through-composed cantata for two sopranos, chorus, flutes, strings, and continuo. The term "Schopfungsfest", or "festival of creation", refers to Sunday as the day which commemorates the seventh day of creation. This volume of the Complete Edition contains the "Morgengesang", the wedding cantata, and arias and chamber cantatas. The performance material for the edition contains just the "Morgengesang". Score and part available separately - see item CA.3323900.