Bach composed this cantata for the wedding of Johann Heinrich Wolff and Susanna Regina Hempel. Susanna was the daughter of a customs official, and came from Zittau; her husband came from Leipzig, where the work was first performed on 5 February 1728. The text was written by Picander, who published it in his collection Ernst-Schertzhaffte und Satyrische Gedichte. Picander refers to the bride and groom by the rivers of their respective cities (the "Pleißenstadt" of the title is Leipzig, the city on the river Pleiße).
Librettist | Christian Friedrich Henrici (1700–1764) (also as Picander) (incomplete) |
Date of composition | 1728 |
Premiered | 1728, February 5th in Leipzig, Germany |
First published | 1924 in Berlin, Germany |
Dedicated to | For the Wedding of Johann Heinrich Wolff and Susanna Regina Hempel |
Type | Secular Cantata |
Tonality | C Major |
Catalogue | BWV 216 |
Instruments |
Voice (Soprano)
Voice (Alto) Orchestra |
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Jean-Sébastien Bach: Vergnügte Pleissenstadt en do majeur, BWV 216 "Apollo et Mercurius" Johann Sebastian Bach: Vergnügte Pleissenstadt in do maggiore, BWV 216 "Apollo et Mercurius" Johann Sebastian Bach: Vergnügte Pleissenstadt C-dur, BWV 216 "Apollo et Mercurius" |