cantata
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Perhaps most important of all, so are its forms: the symphony, the string quartet, the cantata, etc.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
The cantata is based on a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow that tells the tale of an Ojibwe warrior in what is now Michigan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
In 2004, a Bach cantata that had been lost for decades was rediscovered in the papers of Japanese pianist Chieko Hara.
From Barron's ● Nov. 17, 2025
“Bach Duet,” made in 1974 and not performed since the mid-70s, is set to Bach’s 78th cantata, “Jesu, der du meine Seele.”
From New York Times ● May 8, 2024
In the cantata the tune represented a tragic Muslim Princess, Erminia, during the Crusades.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
Bach’s cantatas were limited by the forces available to him in a given week.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 24, 2026
Barely into his 20s, he formed his first ensemble in his home town in 1954, and it was with this group, the Gächinger Kantorei, and the Bach-Collegium Stuttgart that he took on the complete cantatas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 24, 2026
His bête noire was the widespread notion that Beethoven symphonies and Bach cantatas could be divorced from their historical contexts.
From New York Times ● Jul. 1, 2022
Bassist Doug Balliett, who teaches a course on the Beatles at the Juilliard School and writes cantatas for Sunday church services, as well as wacky pop operas, is in a class of his own.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2022
Whether I play the blues or boogies, concertos or cantatas, I forget about me.
From "Blended" by Sharon M. Draper
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