Chorus a cappella
SKU:
BR.CHB-5302-02
Motet. Composed by
Johann Friedrich Doles.
Edited by Jurgen
Neubacher. Choir;
stapled. Chor-Bibliothek
(Choral Library). Motet;
Baroque. Choral score. 24
pages. Duration 18'.
Breitkopf and Haertel
#ChB 5302-02. Published
by Breitkopf and Haertel
(BR.CHB-5302-02).
ISBN
9790004412220. 7.5 x 10.5
inches.
Johann
Friedrich Doles was the
indirect successor of
J.S. Bach as Thomaskantor
in Leipzig. He must have
been familiar with Bachs
setting of Jesu, meine
Freude BWV 227 when he
wrote his Motet on this
piece around 1775, since
there are several
stylistic parallels with
its great precursor.
Typical for Doless
chorale motet is the
fifth strophe (see
example) with its sleek
and elegant alternation
between solo and tutti
sections, whereby the
composer and Thomaskantor
probably only had eight
able singers for the
tutti in Leipzig around
1780, as Doles himself
laments. The late 18th
century was simply not
the golden age of the
Thomasschule! Doless
motet fell into oblivion
and was long held to be
lost. This first edition
supplements the
publications from the
late Baroque and early
Classical eras (Graun,
Bortnyansky a.o.) which
were released in recent
years in Breitkopfs
Choral Library.
