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Mein Schmerz kann unbeschreiblich heißen! Join Facebook to connect with Luciana Traverso Gracey and others you may know. With a sense of symbolism, Bach has the vocal soloists entering from high to low, as if being lowered into the grave: first the soprano, then the alto, followed by the tenor and finally the bass. For instance, the opening chorus takes the words of the first half of the first strophe, the soprano recitative combines the second half of strophe 1 with the first half of strophe 2, and the soprano aria finishes off this strophe.Īll in all, the nine strophes produced a cleverly methodical ten-part composition. In a wonderful show of wilfulness, Bach leaves little of this strict form in place, cutting through strophes to his heart’s content. For the musical contribution, lyricist Johann Christoph Gottsched had created a real ode in orderly fashion, in nine strophes of eight lines each. Whereas in church they were separated by the sermon, in this case a commemorative speech was given in between. Like many a church cantata, this secular ode also consists of two movements. “The music is charged with intimacy, with an extremely personal feel, as if a family member has died”, says the conductor Václav Luks. From start to finish, the work is characterised by an ardour that is lent extra cachet through the rich orchestration, which includes two oboes d’amore, two gambas and two lutes. He could not have given stronger confirmation of the esteem in which the deceased electress was held. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected. The Trauerode is undoubtedly one of Bach’s most moving compositions. Join Facebook to connect with Luciana Traverso and others you may know. On her death in 1727, she was commemorated in Leipzig with a ceremony for which Bach composed a funeral cantata: Laβ, Fürstin, laβ noch einen Strahl, BWV 198, better known as the Trauerode. Christiane Eberhardine, however, remained true to her religious conviction and spent the thirty years up to her death in voluntary exile in Pretzsch aan de Elbe. When her husband Augustus the Strong, Elector of Saxony, got the opportunity to become king of Poland as well, in 1697, there was an important condition attached: the ruler had to bid goodbye to his Lutheran faith and become a Catholic. Christiane Eberhardine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth had made herself extremely popular in Lutheran Saxony.