Meine Freundin, du bist schön (Bach, Johann Christoph)

Composition Year	1676
Genre Categories	Sacred cantatas; Cantatas; Religious works; For 4 voices, mixed chorus, violin, 3 viols, continuo; Scores featuring the voice; Scores featuring the soprano voice; Scores featuring the alto voice; Scores featuring the tenor voice; Scores featuring the bass voice; Scores featuring mixed chorus; Scores featuring the violin; Scores featuring the viol; Scores with basso continuo; For voices and chorus with solo instruments; German language

Composition Year

1676

Genre Categories

Sacred cantatas; Cantatas; Religious works; For 4 voices, mixed chorus, violin, 3 viols, continuo; Scores featuring the voice; Scores featuring the soprano voice; Scores featuring the alto voice; Scores featuring the tenor voice; Scores featuring the bass voice; Scores featuring mixed chorus; Scores featuring the violin; Scores featuring the viol; Scores with basso continuo; For voices and chorus with solo instruments; German language

1 Performances
- 1.1 Naxos
2 Sheet Music
- 2.1 Parts
3 General Information
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Performances

Naxos

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Sheet Music

Parts

Complete parts
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Copyist	Johann Ambrosius Bach
Publisher. Info.	Manuscript (copy), n.d.?
Copyright	Public Domain [tag/del]
Misc. Notes	Original Manuscript parts copied out by Ambrosius Bach. The parts are prefaced with a commentary on the work, also by Ambrosius Bach (Gardiner, John Eliot "Music In The Castle Of Heaven", 2013).
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General Information

Work Title	Meine Freundin du bist Schön
Alternative. Title
Composer	Bach, Johann Christoph
I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No.	IJB 13
Key	G minor
Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp.	1676
Librettist	Songs of Solomon, possibly altered by J.C. Bach?
Language	German
Average DurationAvg. Duration	20 minutes
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period	Baroque
Piece Style	Baroque
Instrumentation	Voices: soprano, alto, tenor, bass + mixed chorus (SATB) Orchestra: violin, 3 violas + continuo

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Wedding music.
Contains the famous ciaconna "Mein Freund is Mein" for soprano, solo violin and viol consort.
The text is originally from the Songs of Solomon, but sometimes slightly altered for the piece in question, possibly by J.C. Bach himself.

Recorded on the 1986 album "The Bach Family before Johann Sebastian: Cantatas".