Bach digital - Was mir behagt, ist nur die muntre Jagd [2. Fassung] BWV 208.2

Saxe-Poland

Genre: Secular cantata
Scoring: Solo: S I (Diana), S II (Pales), T (Endymion), B (Pan), [S I, S II, T, B,] Corno da caccia I, Corno da caccia II, Recorder I, Recorder II, Oboe I, Oboe II, Taille, Bassono, Violin I, Violin II, Viola, Violoncello, Basso continuo (+ Violone grosso)

Date of origin, Work history: vor dem 03. August 1742
First performance on August 3, 1742, for the name day of the Saxon Elector Friedrich August II (King August III of Poland); the music is likely largely identical with Weimar versions
Early performances: 3 August 1742, Leipzig (Premiere) (Link to event)
Comment: 2nd version for the Weimar court
Text in mvts. 5,6,12 and 15: 'Christian' altered to 'Ernst August'
: Introduction to the work
Link to videos:: Was mir behagt, ist nur die muntre Jagd [2. Fassung] BWV 208.2 (Leipziger Universitätschor, Pauliner Barockensemble, D. Timm)

Libretto: See BWV 208.1; altered compared to the text print by Franck 1716 (author unknown) in movement 1, 5, 8, 12, and 14; text copy by J. Elias Bach in the autograph score of BWV 208.1 (D-B: P 42, fascicle 3). Title: Frolockender Goetter-Streit | bey dem allerhöchsten | Nahmens-Feste | des Allerdurchlauchtigsten und Groß- | mächtigsten | Königs in Pohlen und Chur-Fürsten | zu Sachsen, | in unterthänigster Ehrfurcht aufgeführt | in dem | collegio Musico | durch | J. S. B. | Diana. | Endymion. | Pan. | Pales.
[Joyous Contest of Gods | on the most exalted | Name-Day | of the most illustrious and mighty | King of Poland and Elector | of Saxony, | performed in most humble reverence | in the | musical college | by | J. S. B. | Diana. | Endymion. | Pan. | Pales.]
BWV 208.1:
S. Franck. Transcript of text (unknown hand, Weimar around date of composition 1713): Frolockender Götter Streit | bey | des etc. | Hochfürstlich Geburths Tage | unterthänigst aufgeführt | von etc. | Diana, Endymion, Pan, Pales. [Joyful Struggle of the Gods | at | the etc. | Princely Birthday | most humbly performed | by etc. | Diana, Endymion, Pan, Pales.] (D-B: P 42, Fascicle 3). Text print: Franck 1716, page 436
Link to lyrics

Edition

NBA I/37, -- (W. Neumann, 1961) – Critical report (1961), S. 91;

BG 29, S.XIV (P. Graf Waldersee, 1881)

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