Be silent, not a word (Coffee Cantata)
BWV 211, 1734
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text (without music) for download, html file, Singing text, english translationhtml file, Singing text, english translation (Sample)1 Recitativo (Tenore) Be silent, not a word,
and listen to what has occurred:
Herr Schlendrian comes by,
see, too, his daughter Lizzie there;
he growls just like a grizzly bear.
One minute, and we’ll tell you why!
2 Aria (Basso) Children oftentimes are headaches,
hundred thousand miseries!
Day by day my daughter Lizzie
I admonish ’til I’m dizzy,
I rebuke her ‘til I’m dizzy,
but the point she never sees.
3 Recitativo (Soprano, Basso) You naughty child, you naughty Lizzie!
Come! Will you never mend your ways?
Give up this coffee, craze!
Papa, dear, please don’t be so cross.
Unless I made me a nice cup of coffee,
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text (without music) for download, html file, Singing text, originalhtml file, Singing text, original (Sample)1 Recitativo (Tenore) Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht
und höret, was itzund geschicht:
Da kömmt Herr Schlendrian
mit seiner Tochter Liesgen her;
er brummt ja wie ein Zeitel-Bär;
hört selber, was sie ihm getan!
2 Aria (Basso) Hat man nicht mit seinen Kindern
hunderttausend Hudelei!
Was ich immer alle Tage
meiner Tochter Liesgen sage,
gehet ohne Frucht vorbei.
3 Recitativo (Soprano, Basso) Du böses Kind, du loses Mädchen,
ach! Wann erlang ich meinen Zweck:
tu mir den Coffee weg!
Herr Vater, seid doch nicht so scharf!
Wenn ich des Tages nicht dreimal
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text (without music) for download, html file, Introductory text, Englishhtml file, Introductory text, English (Sample)Abridged foreword of the Edition Carus 31.211
Uwe Wolf
Translation: Gudrun and David KosvinerIn 1729 Bach took over the direction of the “Collegium musicum,” initially founded by Telemann, from Georg Balthasar Schott (1686–1736) who had been appointed to the city Kantorate in Gotha. Since 1723, the Collegium musicum – a student amateur ensemble of considerable size – played weekly performances in Gottfried Zimmermann’s coffee house “In summertime: Wednesdays in the garden at the Wind-Mühl-Gasse from 4 to 6 p.m.; in wintertime: Fridays in the coffee house in the Cather[inen]-Straße, from 8 to 10 a.m.” During trade fairs, there were two performances a week (Tuesdays and Fridays). It is not known in detail which works were played – certainly a large repertoire of contemporary instrumental and vocal music will have been necessary to supply programs for this regular concert event. In Bach’s oeuvre, the four “moralizing cantatas” are among the likely candidates: Ich bin in mir vergnügt (Content am I with life) BWV 204, Geschwinde, geschwinde, ihr wirbelnden Winde (Return ye, ye whirling tornados) BWV 201, Erwählte Pleißen-Stadt (O happy town of Pleiss) BWV 216a and finally
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text (without music) for download, html file, Introductory text, Germanhtml file, Introductory text, German (Sample)Gekürztes Vorwort der Ausgabe Carus 31.211
Uwe Wolf
Im Jahr 1729 übernahm Bach die Leitung des einst von Telemann gegründeten „Collegium musicum“ von Georg Balthasar Schott (1686–1736), der auf das Stadt-Kantorat nach Gotha berufen worden war. Zu den Aufgaben des Collegium musicum – ein studentisches Laienensemble beachtlicher Größe – gehörten seit 1723 wöchentliche Auftritte im Kaffeehaus von Gottfried Zimmermann „Sommers-Zeit Mittwochs, auf der Wind-Mühl-Gasse, im Garten, von 4 bis 6 Uhr, und Winters-Zeit Freitags im Caffée-Hause, auf der Cather[inen]-Straße, von 8 bis 10 Uhr“. Während der Messen wurde sogar zweimal wöchentlich musiziert (jeweils dienstags und freitags). Was im Einzelnen gespielt wurde, ist nicht bekannt – sicher wird ein breites Repertoire zeitgenössischer Instrumental- und Vokalmusik vonnöten gewesen sein, um diese regelmäßige Konzertveranstaltung zu bespielen. Unter Bachs Kompositionen kommen unter anderem vier „moralische Kantaten“ dafür in Betracht: Ich bin in mir vergnügt BWV 204, Geschwinde, geschwinde, ihr wirbelnden Winde BWV 201, Erwählte Pleißen-Stadt BWV 216a und schließlich Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht, die Kaffeekantate BWV
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Composer
Johann Sebastian Bach
| 1685-1750Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the most important composers of Western music history. He came from a widely ramified musical dynasty, which produced numerous musicians and organists in the Thuringian-Saxon area.
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Editor
Uwe Wolf
| 1961Uwe Wolf studied musicology, history, and historical ancillary science at Tübingen and Göttingen. After receiving his doctorate in 1991 he was a research assistant at the Johann-Sebastian-Bach-Institut in Göttingen. From 2004 he worked at the Bach-Archiv Leipzig. There he directed a both research departments, was substantially responsible for the redisigning of the Bach Museum, and he developed the digital Online-Projekt Bach. Since October 2011 he has been the Chief Editor at Carus-Verlag, Stuttgart. He has taught at various universities and also belongs to the editorial boards of several complete editions. Personal details
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