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? * }} }} | movements = 7 | text_poet = | vocal = choir and solo | instrumental = }} ''ドイツ語:Christen, ätzet diesen Tag'' (Christians, engrave this day),〔 BWV 63, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed the Christmas cantata for the First Day of Christmas, possibly in 1713 for the ドイツ語:Liebfrauenkirche in Halle. He performed it again for his first Christmas as ドイツ語:Thomaskantor in Leipzig, on 25 December 1723. == History and words == The cantata is Bach's earliest extant cantata for Christmas, possibly composed in Weimar as early as 1713.〔 The text of the cantata, which echoes theologians in Halle, suggests that it was composed with Halle's ドイツ語:Liebfrauenkirche in mind, in 1713, when Bach applied to be organist of this church, or in 1716, when he was involved in rebuilding its organ. The text is possibly by that church's 'ラテン語:Pastor primarius' Johann Michael Heineccius, who also wrote the libretti for other Bach cantatas definitely written for Halle and had favoured Bach's application for organist at the church as a successor to Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow. Musicologist Christoph Wolff deducts from the "lavish forces" of four trumpets, timpani and three oboes on top of the strings, an unprecedented scoring in Bach's cantatas, that the work was not composed for the intimate ''ドイツ語:Schloßkirche'' in Weimar. He dates it as 1714 or 1715.〔 According to John Eliot Gardiner, the first performance may have taken place in Weimar in the church of St. Peter und Paul, performed by the combined musicians of the ducal Capelle and the town.〔 The prescribed readings for the feast day were from the ''Epistle of Titus,'' "God's mercy appeared" () or from ''Isaiah,'' "Unto us a child is born" (), and from the ''Gospel of Luke,'' the Nativity, Annunciation to the shepherds and the angels' song (). The poet wrote a text centered in symmetry around a recitative, framed by two duets, two more recitatives and two equal chorus movements. The lack of a closing chorale, which closes most of Bach's later cantatas, has raised the question if the work is based on a secular cantata.〔 According to Gardiner, the cantata was performed again to celebrate the bicentennial of the Reformation in Halle in 1717.〔 The musicologist Philipp Spitta assumed that the cantata was written for a 1723 premiere in Leipzig, because Bach performed it on the First day of Christmas in his first year as Thomaskantor, turning to new compositions that year only for the Second and Third of Christmas, ドイツ語:''Darzu ist erschienen der Sohn Gottes'', BWV 40, and ドイツ語:''Sehet, welch eine Liebe hat uns der Vater erzeiget'', BWV 64. The musicologist Julian Mincham assumes that Bach chose this cantata for his first Christmas as ドイツ語:Thomaskantor because "an inspired piece that commenced and concluded with impressive choruses, was exactly the right work for the occasion and nothing new was likely to eclipse it." It demanded the largest group of performers since Bach had begun his post half a year before, asking for four trumpets, timpani and three oboes in addition to the regular four voice parts and strings.〔 Bach performed the cantata in Leipzig at least one more time, possibly in 1729.〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Christen, ätzet diesen Tag, BWV 63」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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