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Jesus nahm zu sich die Zwölfe, BWV 22

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The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/February 7, 2023 by Gog the Mild (talk) 15:39, 3 January 2023 (UTC)



Jesus nahm zu sich die Zwölfe (Jesus gathered the Twelve to Himself), BWV 22, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach, written for the last Sunday before Lent. He composed it as an audition piece for the position of director of church music in Leipzig, and he first performed it there in a church service at the Thomaskirche on 7 February 1723. The work begins with a scene from the Gospel in which Jesus predicts his suffering in Jerusalem, and is not understood by his disciples. Bach showed, setting the prescribed text of an unknown poet, that he mastered the composition of a dramatic scene, an expressive aria with obbligato oboe, a recitative with strings, an exuberant dance, and a chorale in the style of Johann Kuhnau, his predecessor in Leipzig. According to the Bach scholar Richard D. P. Jones, several elements of the work such as a "frame of biblical text and chorale around the operatic forms of aria and recitative" became standards for Bach's Leipzig cantatas and even his Passions.
 * Most recent similar article(s): nothing similar remembered
 * Main editors: Gerda Arendt
 * Promoted: 2015
 * Reasons for nomination: 300th anniversary of the first performance which was the audition of the composer for the post in Leipzig, making music history - this appeared before on the the same day in 2015. - I realize now a conflict on 7 February. The cantata could also run when the last Sunday before Lent is in 2023, 19 February. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:47, 21 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Support as nominator. Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:29, 21 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Support instead of the other one for this date, particularly per Gog the Mild's comments and the fact that 300 is a rounder number than 140. casualdejekyll  19:26, 24 December 2022 (UTC)