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Erschallet, ihr Lieder, erklinget, ihr Saiten! BWV 172

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The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/June 8, 2014 by BencherliteTalk 08:55, 20 May 2014 (UTC)



Erschallet, ihr Lieder, erklinget, ihr Saiten!, BWV 172, is a 1714 church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach, composed in Weimar for Pentecost Sunday. The title translates as "Ring out, you songs; sound, you strings!" It is an early work in a genre to which Bach later contributed complete cantata cycles for all occasions of the liturgical year. Appointed Konzertmeister in the spring of 1714, he composed monthly church cantatas, most to texts by court poet Salomon Franck. The librettist reflects different aspects of the Holy Spirit, including a quotation from the prescribed Gospel reading and a stanza from Philipp Nicolai's 1599 hymn "Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern" as the closing chorale. The work is in six movements, and scored for four vocal parts, three trumpets, timpani, oboe d'amore and a string orchestra. Bach specified an unusual repeat of the opening chorus after the sixth movement. He led the first performance in the court chapel of the Weimar palace. Bach performed the cantata again several times during his tenure as Thomaskantor – director of church music – in Leipzig, indicating that he particularly valued this cantata.
 * Most recent similar articles: I don't remember any classical sacred composition. The last composition was an opera, L'incoronazione di Poppea on 18 February.
 * Main editors: Gerda Arendt
 * Promoted: 2014
 * Reasons for nomination: The cantata was premiered on Pentecost 1714, 300 years ago. It would be best on Pentecost 2014, 8 7 June. (I made a mistake in the date, thinking that Pentecost was on the 8th, because we sing the 8th, - we celebrate two days. Seeing that there are good reasons for a bishops's church on the 7th, I hope Bach would not mind the 8th, although in later years he wrote three cantatas for the three days they celebrated then.) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:18, 17 April 2014 (UTC)


 * Support as nominator. Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:23, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Support. The main page needs more classical music :) Espresso Addict (talk) 18:23, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Trimmed to below 1,200 characters and link added at the start of the article, both per standard procedure - please, Gerda, do this yourself in future. Pentecost is 8th June, not 7th, so there is no reason to worry about a date clash! BencherliteTalk 19:24, 24 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Support: Highly appropriate theme for the day.   Montanabw (talk) 19:36, 24 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Support. 300th aniversary. Jonathunder (talk) 22:35, 16 May 2014 (UTC)