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Solomon's Knot
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Kuhnau Christmas Cantatas
Solomon's Knot
Programme & Song Text
Date
Sat 17 Dec 2022, 7.30pm
Tickets
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Duration

This concert will be approximately 2 hours in duration, including an interval

Availability

Important Information

Download the PDF programme and song sheet/translations here. Reproduction and distribution is strictly prohibited.

Artists

  • Solomon's Knot

    Programme

    • Johann Kuhnau
      1660-1722
        • Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied
          (London première)
        • O heilige Zeit
        • Das Alte ist vergangen
          (London première)

    Interval

    • Johann Kuhnau
      1660-1722
        • Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern
        • Frohlocket, ihr Völker, und jauchzet, ihr Heiden
          (London première)

    Encore

    Overview

    Remembered today as a composer, but in his lifetime also highly regarded as a music theorist, novelist, translator and even as a lawyer, Johann Kuhnau (1660-1722) was JS Bach’s predecessor as Thomaskantor in Leipzig. He held the post he eventually handed on to Bach from 1701-21 – though finding the job, according to scholar Willi Apel, ‘as vexatious and difficult’ as did his successor.

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