Mayer Cantata Auf, Brüder! auf, und die Saiten zur Hand! | |
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by Anton Bruckner | |
The Marble Hall of St. Florian Abbey | |
Key | D major |
Catalogue | WAB 60 |
Form | Cantata |
Occasion | Name day |
Text | by Franz Ernst Marinelli |
Language | German |
Composed | 1 July 1855 : St. Florian Abbey |
Dedication | Friedrich Mayer |
Vocal | SATB choir, TTBB choir and TTBB vocal quartet |
Instrumental | 2 oboes, 2 bassoons, 3 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones |
The Mayer Cantata, WAB 60, is a cantata composed by Anton Bruckner in 1855. It is the second of three larger-scale occasional compositions, and the composer's first extended composition for large wind ensemble and choir.
Bruckner composed the cantata for the name-day of Friedrich Mayer, the prior of the St. Florian Abbey. The piece was performed on 17 July 1855 on the evening before Mayer's name day. [1]
The Mayer Cantata, composed one year after the Missa solemnis , was the penultimate large work composed by Bruckner during his stay in St. Florian. Five months later, three weeks before he moved to Linz, he composed the cantata Festgesang , WAB 15, "Farewell to St. Florian". [2] [1]
The manuscript is stored in the archive of the St. Florian Abbey. [3] An excerpt of the cantata was first published in band II/2, pp. 230–239 of the Göllerich/Auer biography. [1] The cantata is put in Band XXII/1 No. 4 of the Gesamtausgabe. [4]
The work is using a text by Franz Ernst Marinelli.
Auf, Brüder! auf, und die Saiten zur Hand! | Let's go, brothers! and take the strings into our hands! |
The in total 169-bar long work in D major is scored for SATB choir, TTBB choir and TTBB vocal quartet, and wind instruments (2 oboes, 2 bassoons, 3 horns, 2 trumpets and 3 trombones).
The cantata is in three movements:
The cantata, the second of three larger-scale occasional compositions, [6] is Bruckner's first extended composition for large wind ensemble and choir. The first verse, which expresses a male point of view, introduced by a solo horn, is set for men's voices with instruments in a comparable register (horns and trombones). The text of the second movement, which projects a gentle, thoughtful mood, is sung with smaller forces a cappella. The words of the final stanza, which are highly celebratory, introduced by the trumpets, is using the whole tessitura of voices with a large set of wind instruments. The solo horn recalls the introductory motive, providing a musical unity. This cantata may be the first work, in which Bruckner's personal style is clearly recognisable. [3] [7]
There is a single recording of the Mayer Cantate:
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