• [Cantata, BWV 168].

Uniform title:
  • Tue Rechnung! Donnerwort
Alternative:
  • Dom. 9 post Trinit : Thue Rechung! Donner Wort etc. â 4 Vocibus 2 Hautb. d'Amour, 2 Violini, Viola con Continuo / di Sign: J S Bach.
Composer:
  • Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750
Transcriber:
  • Kuhnau, Johann Andreas
  • Meissner, Christian Gottlob
  • Bach, Johann Heinrich
Text language:
  • Text in German.
Publisher:
  • [1725]
Format:
  • Musical score
  • Manuscript
Date:
  • 1725
Extent:
  • 14 leaves (10 manuscript parts) : paper ; 24 x 30 cm
Spatial:
  • New Jersey
Language:
  • German
Abstract:
  • Manuscript in the hands of Johann Andreas Kuhnau, Christian Gottlob Meissner, Johann Heinrich Bach, and others, with autograph annotations and basso continuo figures by J. S. Bach.
Description:
  • Parts contained in a folder of later date, with the following description written on the front of the outside flap in the hand of Ernst Rudorff: "Mappe la B. N° 7 (Siehe Bachband 41 Vorwort Seite XLI) Original-(Orchesterstimmen zu Cantate: "Thue Rechnung! Donnerwort" mit eigenhändigen Vortragszeichen, Notenbruchstücken und bezifferung von Joh. Seb. Bach's B. A. XXXIII, N° 168). Vorhanden: Hautbois d'Amour I u. II, Violino I u. II, Viola, Continuo (2 Mal in h moll, 2 Mal in a moll). Fehlend: Titel und die 4 Singstimmen."
  • Origin: Written in Leipzig in 1725; first performed 29 July 1725.
  • Original set probably consisted of 15 parts, 13 of which are extant. The Scheide set includes ten of the parts: Soprano (copied by Kuhnau and Meissner), Hautb: d'Amour I and II, Violino Imo, Violino 2do, Viola (all copied by Kuhnaus and Meissner with annotation by J. S. Bach), continuo (untransposed in B minor, copied by Kuhnau with figures throughout copied by J. S. Bach), continuo (duplicate part, untransposed without figures, copyist 2), continuo (transposed to A minor with figures for the recitative movements 2 and 4, copied by Johann Heinrich Bach, likely the figures as well), and continuo (duplicate, transposed to A minor without figures, copyist 3)
  • Cover title supplied from Marshal, R. L., ed. Johann Sebastian Bach, p. 113 (from the original cover now joined with another set manuscript parts held at the Berlin Staatsbibliothek Preussicher Kulturbesitz), mus. ms. Bach St 90.
Binding note:
  • In folder, together with M 151
Call number:
  • 119.4
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Subject:
  • Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750—Manuscripts
  • Cantatas, Sacred—Parts
  • Music—Manuscripts
  • Manuscripts, German—New Jersey—Princeton
  • Manuscripts—Germany—Leipzig—18th century
  • Paper
  • Parts (Music)
  • Cantatas
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