5/19/2023 0 Comments Bach the learned musician![]() ![]() The cantata is based on the Italian solo cantata tradition. ![]() Bach wrote a work to entertain, and to showcase two musicians, the singer and a virtuoso harpsichordist. ![]() The composition of Amore traditore may have been prompted by the visit of Johann Gottfried Riemschneider, a famous bass, at the court in Köthen in 1718-19. The text is very similar to the text of a cantata by Nicola Fago. Unusually for Bach, the text is Italian only one other cantata ( BWV 209) has Italian text. Its librettist and first performance are also unknown. ![]() History and text īach composed this cantata in Köthen in 1718 or 1719 for an unknown occasion. There I had a gracious Prince, who both loved and knew music, and in his service I intended to spend the rest of my life. He had no choir at his disposition, but several excellent singers who sometimes stayed for a short period. As the court was Reformed, he had no obligations to compose church music, but focused on instrumental works. Bach wrote the unusual work on an Italian libretto for a bass soloist and harpsichord.Īfter an extended period at the court of Weimar, Bach was Kapellmeister at the court of Leopold, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen between 17, directing a qualified musical ensemble. Secular cantata composed by Johann Sebastian BachĪmore traditore (Treacherous love), BWV 203, is a secular cantata composed by Johann Sebastian Bach in Köthen between 17, while he was in the service of the court of Leopold, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen. ![]()
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