• Non sa che sia dolore

BWV 209; BC G 50

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Genre

• Secular cantata

Scoring

S*; Fl trav, 2 Vl, Va, Bc

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Date of origin, Work history

• nach 1729

• Date of composition after 1729. A composition dedicated to an academic returning to his hometown of Ansbach, possibly the later Ansbach legal advisor Lorenz Albrecht Beck (1723–1768), who stayed as a student in Leipzig until early 1747 (Schulze BJ 2010)

Introduction to the work

Link to videos:

Non sa che sia dolore, BWV 209 (La Divina Armonia, L. Ghielmi)

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Libretto

• Author unknown (awkward Italian); Movement 3 and 5 use text sections from the opera librettos Galatea (1722) and Semiramide (1729) by P. Metastasio

Link to lyrics

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edition essential source

D-B Mus.ms. Bach P 135 [Score]

Additional sources

D-B Mus.ms. Bach P 467, Faszikel 2 [Score]
Verschollen BWV 209, Münster [Score]

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Edition

NBA I/41, S. 43 (Andreas Glöckner, 2000) – Critical report (2000), S. 38;

BG 29, S.45 (P. Graf Waldersee, 1881)

Literature

• Schulze BJ 2010

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BachDigitalWork_work_00000264

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https://www.bach-digital.de/receive/BachDigitalWork_work_00000264

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2023-08-27 09:30:30