German Title

O angenehme Melodei

English Title

Oh Pleasing Melody (by Simon Crouch)

Event

Homage to Duke Christian of Saxe-Weissenfels (in 1729)
Homage to Count Joachim Friederich von Flemming (military governor of Leipzig)

Composed

Leipzig, 1729 | 1^st performance: Jan 12, 1729, on the occasion of the Duke Christian of Sachsen-Weißenfels’ visit in Leipzig

Text

Anon

German-1 | German-5 | Translations: English-1

Scoring

Soloist: Soprano
Fragment. All that survives of this cantata is the soprano part. Most of the music survives in the later parody BWV 210. Actually, only the recitatives are completely lost.
Mvts. 1,2,4,6,8,10 can be reconstructed from BWV 210.

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References

BGA: - | NBA: NBA I/39 | BC: G 29 | Zwang: - | First Published: -

Commentary

Crouch

Music

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Discussions

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