Be aware, your fear of God may turn to heresy
Cantata for the 11th Sunday after Trinity BWV 179, 1723
The cantata Seihe zu, dass deine Gottesfurcht nicht Heuchelei sei (See to it that your fear of God be not hypocrisy), BWV 179 opens with a motet-like chorus in the old style without obbligato instruments. This is initially a counter-fugue, i.e., each subject entry is the inversion of its predecessor. Immediately striking is the chromatic treatment (often interwoven in more than one voice) of the word “falschem” (false). The emotional climax of the cantata is the second aria, “Liebster Gott, erbarme dich”, accompanied by two oboes da caccia and bc, whose soprano melody unfolds over the flowing lines of the two oboes. The cantata ends with the song “Ich armer Mensch, ich armer Sünder”, arranged with unusually independent, rhythmically accented lower voices.
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Composer
Johann Sebastian Bach
| 1685-1750Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the most important composers of Western music history. He came from a widely ramified musical dynasty, which produced numerous musicians and organists in the Thuringian-Saxon area.
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Reinhold Kubik
| 1942
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Paul Horn
| 1922-2016Paul Horn war ein deutscher Kirchenmusiker, Organist, Komponist und Musikwissenschaftler. Er studierte Kirchenmusik und Orgel an der Evangelischen Kirchenmusikschule Esslingen am Neckar bei Hans-Arnold Metzger und Musikwissenschaft, Theologie und Geschichte an der Universität Tübingen. Seine berufliche Laufbahn begann als Kantor an der Evangelischen Michaelskirche in Stuttgart-Degerloch. 1954 wurde er Kantor an der Evangelischen Stadtkirche Ravensburg, eine Position, die er bis zu seiner Pensionierung innehatte. Als Musikwissenschaftler arbeitete Horn bis ins hohe Alter eng mit Carus zusammen. So stammen zahlreiche Carus-Klavierauszüge aus seiner Feder. Personal details
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Vernon Wicker
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