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The Calov bible — Bach's markings
- Bach on
Ecclesiastes (Luther/Calov) – marked texts
Nearly every page of this small Bible book contains
markings made by Bach. We may therefore assume that Bach studied
this part of the Calov …
- Bach on
Exodus and Leviticus (Calov) – marked texts
In the book of Exodus there are several interesting
markings. The most prominent are the famous annotation on Exodus
15:20 (Miriam’s musical…
- Bach on Genesis (Calov) –
marked texts
Some markings, and marginal notes jum to the eye.
Bach shows to have been a scrupulously careful reader. He corrects
errors and adds what is missing...
- Bach on the
Books of Joshua, Samuel, Kings and Chronicles (Calov) - marked
texts
Quantatively not so many markings by Bach, but
qualitatively very interesting ones. Immediately in Joshua: twice an
NB !… and of course the …
- Bach on the New
Testament (Calov) – marked texts
The translations below deal with volume III of the
Calov bible commentary in Bach’s possession. Not as many as
expected, but still some are...
- Bach on the
Prophets (Calov) – marked texts
With the Prophets, the second volume opens. Bach
will have read is, but the number of markings is small, and often
only corrections. Intrigu…
- Bach on ‘Job’ and the
‘Psalms’ (Calov)
The text from the Calov Bible Commentary, marked by
Bach. When only ‘corrections’ they are printed in small type (No
claim to completeness w…
- Bach on ‘Numbers’
and ‘Deuteronomy’ (Calov)
Texts from the Calov bible commentary owned by J.S.
Bach in which he made corrections, markings, and some notes. The
English translation is …
- Bach’s annotations in Calov’s Bible
commentary
If we don’t count the minor corrections Bach made in
this 6-part Bible Commentary, some 400 marked passages remain (not
Bible verses, but Lu…
Calov and his commentary
- Abraham Calov –
biblical hermeneutics
From the ‘foreword’ in the Deutsche Bibel , the
‘most humble dedication'(‘Unterthänigste Zueignungs-Schrifft’. 1
Partly in German, more leng…
- Abraham Calov – works
Abraham Calovius (also Abraham Calov or Abraham
Kalau; 16 April 1612 – 25 February 1686) was a Lutheran theologian,
and one of the champions…
- Bach’s copy of
Calov’s Bible commentary (Cox)
abridged from Howard H. Cox , ‘The Scholarly
Detective: Investigating Bach’s Personal Bible’ (in ‘Bach’ 25/1,
1994, pp. 28-45)
- Reading the Bible through Luther’s
lens.
Abraham Calov’s Die Deutsche Bibel (3-volume Bible
commentary drawn from Luther’s writings) and Johann Olearius ‘
Biblische Erklärung , also…
- The 6 title
pages of Calov’s Bible Commentary
The titles of the 6 books (bound in 3 in-folio
volumes, together the “Calov Bible Commentary”) are all different,
and contain a lot of infor…
- The Calov bible – Bach’s
markings
The Calov Bible Commentary (3 volumes) from the
library of J. S. Bach (now in Concordia Seminary Library in St.
Louis, Missouri.)
- The Calov
bible – Bach’s markings – Nederlands
Bach and his sources
- Advent 1 – Predigt
Heinrich Müller (1732)
Heinrich Müller’s Evangelischer Herzens-Spiegel.
Geist-reiche Erklärung und Betrachtung der Sonn- und Fest-täglichen
Evangelien 1732
- Bach Dokumente Bd II, nr.
179
Den 3 .Aprilis 1724. Herrn Johann Sebastian Bachen
Cantori bey der Thomas Schule
- Bach Dokumente, Band II,
nr. 180
Aö. 1721. ward am CharFreytag in der vesper, die
Passion zum 1sten mahl Musiciret, np. I. Viertel auf 2. wurde
gelautet mit dem gantzen gela…
- Christoph Birkmann (mathematician and
librettist of cantatas 1726-1727)
In 2015, Dr. Christine Blanken of the Bach-Archiv
Leipzig discovered a hitherto unknown 1728 publication by Christoph
Birkmann (1703-1771) c…
- Christoph
Birkmann (wiskundige en librettist van cantates 1726-1727)
The Dutch original of this page has moved to
https://bach.wursten.be/christoph-birkmann-librettist-van-cantates-1725-1727/
. An English vers…
- Fanmail in disguise: J.A. Gesner
on Bach as performer (Lat-Eng) 1738
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus, De Institutione Oratoria
, ed. Johann Matthias Gesner (Gottingen: Abram Vandenhoeck, 1738).
- Johann
Christoph Rost – the Passion in Leipzig
The most important ( only ) information about how
and where the Leipzig Passion (recited first, music later) was
performed comes from a regi…
- Petri Thränen
(Buß und Reu) – Heinrich Müller
The Dutch original of this page has moved to
https://bach.wursten.be/petri-thranen-bus-und-reu-heinrich-muller/ .
An English version is in p…
- This
page has moved
Hausen-Birkmann 1726: zonnevlekken en stand van
zonne-as is now on
https://bach.wursten.be/hausen-birkmann-1726-zonnevlekken-en-stand-van-zo…
The Passions
- Am Abend da es kühle war…
The Dutch original of this page has moved to
https://bach.wursten.be/bwv-244-mattheuspassie/am-abend/ . An
English version is in preparation…
- De Mattheüspassie
The Dutch original of this page has moved to
https://bach.wursten.be/bwv-244-mattheuspassie/ . An English version
is in preparation.
- Goede
Vrijdag, Leipzig 1724 – première Johannespassie
The Dutch original of this page has moved to
https://bach.wursten.be/goede-vrijdag-leipzig-1724-premiere-johannespassie/
. An English versio…
- Jesu Leiden, Pein und Tod
German text:
https://www.deutsches-textarchiv.de/book/view/zeitz_gebetbuch_1690?p=445
(Leipziger hymnbook from 1690).
- Jezus kijkt
Petrus aan… Petrus’ tranen / Peter’s tears
The Dutch original of this page has moved to
https://bach.wursten.be/bwv-244-mattheuspassie/jezus-kijkt-petrus-aan/
. An English version is …
- Johannespassie (BWV 245) –
kort
Een beknopte bespreking van de verschillen vindt u
hieronder. Voor een uitgebreide bespreking verwijs ik naar de
website van (wijlen) Eduard…
- Johannespassie (BWV 245)
– versies
The Dutch original of this page has moved to
https://bach.wursten.be/johannespassie-bwv-245-versies/ . An English
version is in preparation.
- O Mensch, bewein dein
Sünde gross
In the version found on bach-cantatas.com
(translated by Francis Browne and William Hoffman), some stanzas are
missing, and there are errors…
- Salve caput cruentatum
Deel 7 van Salve mundi salutare … (meditatie van de
‘wonden’ van Jezus, geordend per lichaamsdeel: membra Jesu Chirsti
). Voor de hele tekst…
- Sehet, Jesus
hat die Hand…
The Dutch original of this page has moved to
https://bach.wursten.be/bwv-244-mattheuspassie/sehet-jesus-hat-die-hand/
. An English version i…
- This page has moved
Erbarme dich: Goede Vrijdag is now on
https://bach.wursten.be/bwv-244-mattheuspassie/erbarme-dich/ .
- This page
has moved
Kom, meisjes, help mij klagen… is now on
https://bach.wursten.be/bwv-244-mattheuspassie/kom-meisjes-help-mij-klagen/
.
- This
page has moved
Picander, libretto Matthäuspassion (digital) is now
on
https://bach.wursten.be/bwv-244-mattheuspassie/picander-libretto-matthauspassion/
.
- Three
clues for understanding Bach’s Saint Matthew’s Passion
Three classic typologies one has to know to
understand the role of the dramatis personae in Bach’s SMP: Lamb,
Isaac, Bride/Bridegroom.
Essays
- From Bach, with ♡
The Dutch original of this page has moved to
https://bach.wursten.be/from-bach-with-love/ . An English version is
in preparation.
- Going to Church with J.S.
Bach
The opening choir of Bachs Saint-Matthews Passion (
Kommt, ihr Töchter, helft mir klagen ) read against the background
of common 17-18th cen…
- The
chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (movie 1968)
Below are three fragments from a 1968 movie (well:
hardly anything ‘moves’, it’s more a ‘statement’), The Chronicle of
Anna Magdalena Bach ,…
- The fiction of
Bach’s Christmas-oratorio
Every year Bach wrote cantatas for all Christmas
celebrations in Leipzig, i.e. six cantatas: three for the ‘three
Christmas days’, and then …
- The Song of Songs (das
Hohelied) and BWV 140
Some necessary background for understanding Bachs
religious works in general, with examples from BWV 140: Wachet auf
ruft uns die Stimme . T…
- Vor deinem
Thron… Bach’s final words (or not?)
Few composers have attracted as many legends as
Johann Sebastian Bach. One of the most persistent tells how the
blind composer, sensing that…