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18-604: The choir was founded in 1946 by Hans Thamm and was conducted by Karl-Friedrich Beringer from 1977 for decades. It is regarded as one of the most renowned boys choirs of the world. The choir is an institution of the Lutheran Church in Bavaria , which raises about 30 percent of the funds required to support both the ensemble and the singers boarding school . The choir received the Rheingau Musik Preis of

36-711: A group of players, depending upon the scoring of the cantata and the performance location. For example, a bassoon is typically playing when other wind instruments are called for, an organ may be played in church, a harpsichord will be used in secular surroundings. The list follows the Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis and contains all sacred cantatas (1–197, 199), secular cantatas (198, 201–215), fragments (50, 80b, 216, 224) and works formerly attributed to Bach (15, 53, 141–142, 160, 189, 217–223), lost cantatas (36a, 66a, 70a, 80a, 120b and others), as well as works which are no longer considered cantatas (11, 53, 118). Most of

54-498: A position which he took up in 1723. Working for Leipzig's Thomaskirche and Nikolaikirche , it was part of Bach's job to perform a church cantata every Sunday and holiday , conducting soloists, the Thomanerchor and orchestra as part of the church service. In his first year there, starting after Trinity , Bach regularly composed a new cantata every week in his Bach's first cantata cycle . The following year, he followed

72-466: Is a sortable list of Bach cantatas , the cantatas composed by Johann Sebastian Bach . His almost 200 extant cantatas are among his important vocal compositions . Many are known to be lost. Bach composed both church cantatas , most of them for specific occasions of the liturgical year of the Lutheran Church, and secular cantatas . Bach's earliest cantatas were written possibly from 1707,

90-720: Is provided, grouped by singers and groups of instruments. Colouring shows which cantatas are not extant church cantatas and which works were not even composed by Bach, but attributed to him in the past. A link to the free score of the Bach Gesellschaft in the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) is provided if available. The abbreviations of performers are given for solo singers, choir (typically SATB ), brass instruments (plus timpani ), woodwinds , strings , keyboard and basso continuo . The basso continuo consists of

108-612: The Rheingau Musik Festival in 2007. From 2011, Martin Lehmann  [ de ] has been artistic director of the choir. The choir's repertoire spans from a cappella to great oratorios such as the Handel's Messiah and Medelssohn's Elijah . With about 70 singers, the choir performs about 50 concerts per year. This includes going on tour once or twice per year to locations such as other European countries,

126-545: The University of Leipzig , and anniversaries and entertainment among the nobility and in society. The list includes both extant cantatas and, as far as known, lost cantatas. It is sortable by the cantata number which equals the number in the Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis (BWV), by title, by occasion during the liturgical year , the year of composition and date of first performance, as far as known. The scoring

144-603: The Middle East, Far East, the United States and South America. The choir accompanied the Presidents of Germany Richard von Weizsäcker and Roman Herzog on their state visits and held a concert for Johannes Rau . At school, the young singers are specially supported in so called "choir classes" of the external grammar school "Johann-Sebastian-Bach- Gymnasium ". This allows for more flexibility in responding to

162-465: The Renaissance to contemporary music, accenting Bach's cantatas , motets and oratorios . Under Thamm's direction, the choir began in 1955 to sing regularly in vesper services called "Motette" at St. Lorenz . He frequently conducted performances at the festival Bachwoche Ansbach . He took the choir on tours, first to Germany and Switzerland, and conducted several recordings. After conducting

180-1180: The choir for 31 years he was succeeded by Karl-Friedrich Beringer in 1978. He died in Barthelmesaurach close to Schwabach . During his 32 years as conductor of the Windbacher Knabenchor, Thamm received many awards and honors, including the Bavarian Order of Merit and the Bavarian Culture Prize. In 1996, he became an honorary citizen of Windsbach. Thamm recorded with the Windsbacher Knabenchor in 1961 Bach's cantatas Wer Dank opfert, der preiset mich, BWV 17 and Unser Mund sei voll Lachens, BWV 110 , and in 1966 Wer nur den lieben Gott läßt walten, BWV 93 , Aus der Tiefen rufe ich, Herr, zu dir, BWV 131 and Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied, BWV 190 . Soloists included Teresa Żylis-Gara , Peter Schreier , Franz Crass and Jakob Stämpfli . List of Bach cantatas This

198-464: The church cantatas are composed for occasions of the Lutheran liturgical year and related to prescribed readings. The Sundays after Trinity are numbered using roman numerals (for example "Trinity II" for the second Sunday after Trinity). The high holidays Christmas , Easter and Pentecost were celebrated for three days, indicated by numbers for the second and third day, for example "Easter 3" for

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216-555: The format, now basing each cantata on a Lutheran hymn in the chorale cantata cycle . He was less rigid over the following years, but still produced new compositions in his third to fifth years , the Picander cycle of 1728–29 , and late works known up to 1745 . Bach also composed cantatas for other church services such as weddings and Ratswahl (the inauguration of a new town council), and he wrote secular cantatas , around 50 known works, for occasions such as academic functions of

234-437: The grammar school. The purpose of this offer is to enable students to catch up on subject matters they missed due to absence or class cancellations which result from tours or additional rehearsals in preparation of important performances. Hans Thamm Hans Thamm (1921 – 13 March 2007) was a German choral conductor, the founder and for more than three decades director of the boys' choir Windsbacher Knabenchor . Thamm

252-479: The service of the Gospel proclamation, established the ensemble a position among the leading German boys' choirs already in the early 1950. He demanded the utmost of himself and his singers; his rehearsal style was rigid, for example a former singer recalls that boys who were not able to sight-read contemporary music— Strohbach , Kodály —had to stand for 45 minutes. The repertoire has been focussed on sacred music from

270-448: The special needs of the singers. The musical education at the boarding school also includes voice training, music theory and of course the daily rehearsals. In order to ensure proper delivery of homework and absorption of curriculum content, the younger grades are obliged to attend a daily "study time" at the boarding school. Depending on the proficiency level of an individual student, special enhancement classes are offered by teachers of

288-790: The war, Thamm took a job as a piano and organ teacher at the Institute of Sacred Music at the University of Erlangen . In March 1946 he was appointed both prefect of music at the former parish orphanage and music teacher at the Gymnasium in Windsbach . The same year he founded the choir that became internationally known as the Windsbacher Knabenchor as a regional choir of the Protestant church in Bavaria. Thamms artistic personality, paired with expert musicianship skills in

306-662: The year he moved to Mühlhausen , although he may have begun composing them at his previous post in Arnstadt . He began regular composition of church cantatas in Weimar between 1708 and 1717, writing one cantata per month. In his next position in Köthen, he composed no church cantatas, but secular cantatas for the court. Most of Bach's church cantatas date from his first years as Thomaskantor and director of church music in Leipzig ,

324-601: Was born in Kamenz , Saxony. He received his first musical training in the boys' choir Dresdner Kreuzchor , where he was active as a soprano singer, also in solo parts, and later as a choir prefect. Rudolf Mauersberger , then the Kreuzkantor , organist Herbert Collum and Alfred Bull, then the head of Protestant church music in Saxony, were among his teachers. During World War II, Thamm was severely injured three times. After

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