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Christ lag in Todes Banden, BWV 4

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The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/April 4, 2021 by Jimfbleak - talk to me?  16:31, 12 March 2021 (UTC)



Christ lag in Todes Banden (Christ lay in death's bonds), BWV4, is a chorale cantata for Easter by Johann Sebastian Bach, one of his earliest church cantatas. It is agreed to be an early work, partly for stylistic reasons and partly because there is evidence that it was probably written for a performance in 1707. Text and music are based on Luther's hymn of the same name, derived from Medieval models. In each of seven vocal movements, Bach used the unchanged words of a stanza of the chorale and its tune as a cantus firmus. Although all movements are in E minor, Bach intensified the meaning of the text through a variety of musical forms and techniques. He performed the cantata again as Thomaskantor in Leipzig, beginning in 1724 for his first Easter there. Only this second version survived, scored for four vocal parts (soprano part pictured) and a Baroque instrumental ensemble of a choir of cornetto and three trombones, and strings. John Eliot Gardiner described the cantata as Bach's "first-known attempt at painting narrative in music" and "a bold, innovative piece of musical drama".
 * Most recent similar article(s): 1 September 2020, Vespro della Beata Vergine
 * Main editors: Gerda Arendt
 * Promoted: March 2016
 * Reasons for nomination: Easter, - this is the second run, with a different image. For the blurb, I didn't look at the former one.
 * Support as nominator. Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:36, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Support. P  anini 🥪 03:11, 1 March 2021 (UTC)