[PDF] Johann Sebastian Bach et le motet - Automatisation

Did Bach write a motet?

Hans Leo Hassler composed motets such as Dixit Maria, on which he also based a mass composition. Johann Sebastian Bach wrote works he called motets, relatively long pieces in German on sacred themes for choir and basso continuo, with instruments playing colla parte, several of them composed for funerals. Six motets certainly composed by Bach are:

What is a baroque motet?

The first page from the manuscript of J. S. Bach 's Baroque music era motet, entitled Der Geist hilft unser Schwachheit auf (BWV226) In Western classical music, a motet is mainly a vocal musical composition, of highly diverse form and style, from high medieval music to the present.

Who arranged Bach's first movement?

There is a very long and not too complicated story here, but the short version is that the work’s first movement, originally by Telemann, was arranged by Bach—“improved” is a better word—so that what was once a four-part motet is now a double-chorus.

Did Bach perform Singet dem Herrn?

St. Thomas School, Leipzig, appears to have kept the [which?] motets in the repertory of its Thomanerchor after Bach's death. It is documented that the choir performed Singet dem Herrn for Mozart in 1789. The director on this occasion was the Thomaskantor Johann Friedrich Doles, a pupil of Bach.