Buxtehude: Also hat Gott die Welt geliebet, BuxWV 5
For God, so loved the world
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- Composer: Dieterich Buxtehude (1637-1707)
- Format: Vocal Score
- Instrumentation (this edition): Soprano, Organ Reduction
- Originally for: Soprano, Orchestra
- Work: Also hat Gott die Welt geliebet (Cantata), BuxWV 5
- Work Languages: English, German
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- Size: 8.3 x 11.7 inches
- Pages: 8
- Urtext / Critical Edition
Description
Buxtehude's numerous vocal compositions which was written for performance in the Lübeck Marienkirche, are stylistically quite varied. The cantata "Also hat Gott die Welt geliebet" is a concerto for solo soprano, with a text taken from the Gospel of St. John. The text employs the principle of dialog as a musical competition between individual instruments or between instruments and the voice, with the inclusion of virtuoso passages.