• Vergnügte Pleißen-Stadt (fragment)

BWV 216.1; BWV 216; BC G 43

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Genre

• Secular cantata

Scoring

• Erhaltene Stimmen: S* (Neiße), A* (Pleiße)

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Date of origin, Work history

• vor dem 07. Februar 1728

• English translation:
  First performance on February 5, 1728, in Leipzig at the “Schellhafer House” for the wedding of the merchant Johann Heinrich Wolff (from Leipzig on the Pleiße River) with Susanna Regina Hempel (from Zittau on the Neiße River). Movement 3 is a parody of BWV 204/8, and Movement 7 is a parody of BWV 205.1/13. Preserved incompletely

Early performances

1728-05-02, Leipzig (Premiere) (Link to event)

Link to videos:

Vergnügte Pleißen-Stadt (Fragment) BWV 216.1, Fragment (Bach Concertino Osaka, J. Rifkin)

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Libretto

• C. F. Henrici. Text print: Picander 1729, page 379

Link to lyrics

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Original sources

J-Tk (o. Sign.) BWV 216 [Part(s)]

Additional sources

A-GÖ Mus. Ms. 4023 [Score, Libretto]

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Edition

NBA I/40, S. 21 (Werner Neumann, 1969) – Critical report (1970), S. 26

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persistent ID

BachDigitalWork_work_00000272

Static URL

https://www.bach-digital.de/receive/BachDigitalWork_work_00000272

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2023-08-27 10:17:59