• Erwählte Pleißen-Stadt

BWV 216.2; BWV 216a; BC [G 47]

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Genre

• Secular cantata

Scoring

• A* (Mercurius), T* (Apollo)

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Date of origin, Work history

• um 1728-1731

• Date of composition around 1728–1731, reason unknown (tribute to Leipzig as a city of science and trade). No musical sources preserved; four movements from the original composition can be reconstructed:
  Sequence of movements and parody relationships (according to the text copy by Christian Gottlob Meißner):
  1. Aria à 2ᵗᵗᵒ: Erwehlte/Vergnügte Pleißen-Stadt (A, T), see BWV 216.1/1
  2. [Recitative]: Ihr Städte die man in der Welt (T)
  3. Aria: Angenehmes Pleiß Athen (T), see BWV 216.1/3
  4. [Recitative]: Nicht die Gelehrsamkeit allein (A)
  5. Aria: Mit Lachen und Scherzen (A), see BWV 216.1/5
  6. [Recitative]: Drum ist gewiß (A, T)
  7. Aria à 2ᵗᵗᵒ: Heil und Seegen (A, T), see BWV 216.1/7

Link to videos:

Erwählte Pleißen-Stadt, BWV 216.2, Rekonstruktion (Deutsche Hofmusik, A. Grychtolik)

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Libretto

• Reworking of BWV 216.1, see textual transcript by C. G. Meißner with autographic entries (D-B: P 613). Heading: Apollo et Mercurius

Link to lyrics

Libretto

Umdichtung von BWV 216.1 s. Textabschrift von CGM mit autogr. Einträgen (D-B: P 613). Kopftitel: Apollo et Mercurius

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Original sources

D-B Mus.ms. Bach P 613 [Libretto]

Additional sources

A-GÖ Mus. Ms. 4023 [Score, Libretto]

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Edition

NBA I/39, - (Werner Neumann, 1977) – Critical report (1977), S. 12f.

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persistent ID

BachDigitalWork_work_00000273

Static URL

https://www.bach-digital.de/receive/BachDigitalWork_work_00000273

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2023-09-12 09:46:01