User:Gerda Arendt/Images#Thanksgiving 2016

Did you know ...

• ... that Bach's cantata for the second day of Christmas, Darzu ist erschienen der Sohn Gottes ("For this the Son of God appeared"), BWV 40, is his first Christmas cantata composed for Leipzig?
• ... that the Annunciation to the shepherds (pictured) in Handel's Messiah, Part I is the only scene from a Gospel in the oratorio?
• ... that Markus Flaig brought Handel's darkness and great light to St. Martin, Idstein?
• ... that Bach has a trumpet tell God's glory in cantata Die Himmel erzählen die Ehre Gottes, BWV 7615px, but oboe d'amore and viola da gamba express "brotherly devotion"?

: 7 July 2011

: a year later I dedicated my first GA to {{User|BarkingMoon}}

: who made the cantata a lead DYK and left

: for lack of br'erly devotion.

Did you know ...

• ... that soprano Rachel Nicholls, a performer of Wagner's Brünnhilde, sang in Bach's dialogue cantata Liebster Jesu, mein Verlangen (Dearest Jesus, my desire) "a clear Lutheran analogy to a love duet"?
• ... that the Comet Hale-Bopp (pictured) inspired Graham Waterhouse to compose Hale Bopp for string orchestra, which ends with a boy soprano singing How Brightly Shines the Morning Star?
• ... that Bach has a trumpet tell God's glory in cantata Die Himmel erzählen die Ehre Gottes, BWV 7615px, but oboe d'amore and viola da gamba express "brotherly devotion"?

: 7 July 2011

: a year later I dedicated my first GA to {{User|BarkingMoon}}

: who made the cantata a lead DYK and left

: for lack of br'erly devotion.

Did you know ...

• ... that motifs of joy in the strings connect recitative and chorale in a movement of the Bach cantata for Purification, Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin, BWV 125, on the Nunc dimittis canticle of Simeon (pictured)? (dedicated to PumpkinSky 2 February 2012)
• ... that Bach's solo cantata Ich habe genug, BWV 82, based on the Canticle of Simeon, was recorded more than 100 times?
• ... that Bach has a trumpet tell God's glory in cantata Die Himmel erzählen die Ehre Gottes, BWV 7615px, but oboe d'amore and viola da gamba express "brotherly devotion"?

: 7 July 2011 - a year later I dedicated my first GA to {{User|BarkingMoon}}

: who made the cantata a lead DYK and left

: for lack of br'erly devotion

Letting Go of the Past

It is frightening to let go

of the past. It is like letting go of something

that is precious. That includes the feeling for

everything that has been, and also, for what was

once a solid identity built on deprivation.

Letting go of the past

must be done gradually and with

special care;

one old belief at a time

and only one fear. [http://richardtylman.atspace.com/poetry.html#Letting%20Go%20of%20the%20Past ...]

Thank you, Poeticbent

Did you know ...

• ... that Samuel Barber derived his choral composition Agnus Dei (Lamb of God) from his successful Adagio for Strings, showing "the work's sense of spirituality"? (for UO)
• ... that in Handel's Messiah, Part II contains the famous Hallelujah Chorus and the oratorio's longest movement, the air for alto He was despised? (for BM and GFH)
• ... that Bach's St Matthew Passion is structured in 67 movements, and tells the Passion based on the Gospel of Matthew, Picander's contemporary poetry, and chorales?

Music for Easter

• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Sicut cervus desiderat at fontes
• Charles Wood: Halleluja
• Orlando di Lasso: Surrexit pastor bonus
• W. A. Mozart: Spatzenmesse

Music for Pentecost

Sunday in St. Bonifatius, Wiesbaden

• William Lloyd Webber: Missa Princeps Pacis (1962)

Monday in Unionskirche, Idstein (pictured)

• Václav Emanuel Horák: "Veni Creator Spiritus"
• William Boyce: "Come Holy Ghost"
• Mozart: Veni Sancte Spiritus, K. 47
• Michael Praetorius: "Nun bitten wir den heiligen Geist"

Did you know ...

• ... that Patrice Chéreau, born 2 November 1944, staged the 1976 centenary production of Der Ring des Nibelungen (pictured), conducted by Pierre Boulez? (DYK Opera 2 November 2012)
• ... that Helene Wildbrunn, a celebrated Wagnerian soprano at the Vienna State Opera and La Scala, began her career in 1907 as a contralto at the Stadttheater Dortmund? (DYK 2 August 2012)
• ... that Sebastian Weigle, named "Conductor of the Year" by Opernwelt three times between 2003 and 2006, performed Wagner's Ring Cycle at the Frankfurt Opera? (DYK 23 March 2012)
• ... that Ulf Schirmer, director of the Oper Leipzig, conducted Richard Wagner's early opera Die Feen as part of the Wagner Year 2013, to be performed in concert at the Bayreuth Festival? (DYK 21 February 2012)
• ... that soprano Janis Martin appeared at the Zurich Opera as Isolde in Wagner's Tristan und Isolde? (DYK 6 November 2010)
• ... that soprano June Card appeared as Freia and Gutrune in Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen, conducted by Michael Gielen and staged by Ruth Berghaus at the Frankfurt Opera? (DYK 27 August 2010)

Mass in B minor structure

Did you know ... that Johann Sebastian Bach reworked music from more than three decades earlier for the central piece Crucifixus in the symmetrical structure of his Mass in B minor?

(23 May 2013) work in progress

Did you know ... that Bach has a trumpet tell God's glory in cantata Die Himmel erzählen die Ehre Gottes, BWV 7615px, first performed in the Thomaskirche (pictured), but oboe d'amore and viola da gamba express "brotherly devotion"?

I dedicated my first GA to {{User|BarkingMoon}} who made the cantata for the second Sunday after Trinity a lead DYK on 7 July 2011 and left - for lack of "br'erly devotion".

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• ... that Felice Bauer and Franz Kafka first met 100 years ago today in Prague, exchanged hundreds of letters, and were engaged twice? (13 August 2012)
• ... that Ottla Kafka, the youngest and dearest sister of Franz Kafka, died in the Holocaust because she divorced her Catholic husband?
• ... that in 1922, Franz Kafka's story "Ein Hungerkünstler" first appeared in *Die neue Rundschau, a German literary magazine founded in 1890 and still in print?
• ... that the German left-liberal daily paper Berliner Börsen-Courier published stock exchange data from 1868, had a sports reporter from 1885 and made playwright Bertolt Brecht known in 1922?
• ... that Franz Kafka wrote the 109 Zürau Aphorisms at the estate of his sister Ottla and her husband in Zürau where he sought recovery from tuberculosis?
• ... that translators of Franz Kafka's works [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_works_by_Franz_Kafka&oldid=685750299] must cope with ambiguous words like Verkehr, which refers both to traffic and sexual intercourse? (3 July 2013)

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Birmingham music

28 August 2013 - Kurhaus Wiesbaden - Rheingau Musik Festival

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Romeo_and_Juliet_%28Tchaikovsky%29&oldid=571069197 Romeo and Juliet]

Edward Elgar: [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cello_Concerto_%28Elgar%29&oldid=571070367 Cello Concerto]

Antonín Dvořák: Symphony No. 8

Sol Gabetta

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

Andris Nelsons

Did you know

• ... that when rehearsing Dvořák's Eighth Symphony, conductor Rafael Kubelík said: "Gentlemen, in Bohemia the trumpets never call to battle – they always call to the dance!"?
• ... that Ben Gunn, imprisoned 32 years for killing a friend when he was 14, earned a Master of Arts degree in peace and reconciliation?

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"{{diff|Library of Birmingham|571357756|571357440|Let us not forget that even one book, one pen, one teacher can change the world}}", Malala Yousafzai at the opening of the Library of Birmingham on 3 September 2013

Did you know ...

• ... that two conductors shared performances of Verdi's {{nowrap|Messa da Requiem}} in St. Martin, Idstein?
• ... that Johann Sebastian Bach reworked music from more than three decades earlier for the central piece Crucifixus in the symmetrical structure of his Mass in B minor?
• ... that the Baroque orchestra L'arpa festante produced the first recording of a Passion by Telemann and played Bach's Mass in B minor in the Cathedral of Trier? [http://www.st-martin-idstein.de/index.php?id=991&type=1]

Did you know ...

• ... that the church choir Chor von St. Bonifatius (pictured) celebrates 150 years today, singing in Wiesbaden the premiere of a Missa solemnis by Colin Mawby, conducted by Gabriel Dessauer? {{nowrap|(3 October 2012)}}
• ... that Franz Schubert's sixth and final mass was not performed until October 1829, almost a full year after his death? ([http://www.wiesbadener-kurier.de/region/wiesbaden/meldungen/print_13500902.htm])

to the memory
of the scuttled,

the banned
and those who have
just given up

to the memory
of the scuttled,

the banned
and those who have just given up

Did you know ...

• ... that a French team created the Jahrhundertring (scene pictured) of Wagner's Ring Cycle at the centenary Bayreuth Festival in 1976, causing {{nowrap|"a near-riot"}}? (Statistics November 2013)
• ... that Patrice Chéreau, the stage director of the centenary Ring Cycle in Bayreuth, directed the film Intimacy, which "sparked a debate about unsimulated sex on screen"?
• ... that the song "Ermutigung" by Wolf Biermann, encouraging people not to become hardened in hard times, was written for Peter Huchel, then under house arrest?
• ... that Johann Sebastian Bach reworked music from more than three decades earlier for the central piece Crucifixus in the symmetrical structure of his {{nowrap|Mass in B minor15px}}?

Music for Christmas, - did you know ...

• ... that at age 79, composer Heinrich Schütz (pictured) published only the recitatives of his Christmas Story and offered the other music for sale on request?
• ... that A Boy was Born (pictured), the first major vocal composition by Benjamin Britten, received its premiere in 1934 as a BBC broadcast?
• ... that Die Singphoniker recorded Schubert's complete part songs and Singphonic Christmas, European Christmas carols?

Christmas eve in St. Martin, Idstein

• Andreas Hammerschmidt: "Machet die Tore weit"
• George Frideric Handel: "Tochter Zion, freue dich"
• Nikolaus Herman: "Lobt Gott, ihr Christen, alle gleich"
• Giuseppe Jannacconi: "Ich verkündige euch große Freude"
• Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel: Kündlich groß ist das gottselige Geheimnis (Christmas cantata, closing choral {{nowrap|"Der Sohn des Vaters, Gott von Art")}}
• Adam Gumpelzhaimer: "Vom Himmel hoch, da komm ich her"
• Michael Praetorius: "Es ist ein Ros entsprungen"
• Heinrich Schütz: Beschluss from Weihnachtshistorie

::Chor St. Martin, strings of the Orchester St. Martin, conductor: Franz Fink

Christmas day in St. Bonifatius, Wiesbaden

• Michael Haydn: Missa Sancti Francisci Seraphici

::Soloists, Chor von St. Bonifatius, members of the Hessisches Staatsorchester, conductor: Gabriel Dessauer

to the memory
of the scuttled,

the banned
and those who have just given up

Did you know ...

• ... that Bach set Johann Gramann's hymn "Nun lob, mein Seel, den Herren" in a cantata reflecting the end of the year with praise?
• ... that A Boy was Born (pictured), the first major vocal composition by Benjamin Britten, received its premiere in 1934 as a BBC broadcast?
• ... that the song "Ermutigung" by Wolf Biermann, encouraging people not to become hardened in hard times, was written for Peter Huchel, then under house arrest?

to the memory
of the scuttled,

the banned
and those who have just given up

Did you know ...

• ... that a German Magnificat, or Song of Mary, ends the last work by composer Heinrich Schütz, known as his swan song? (for 28bytes)
• ... that in John Rutter's Latin Magnificat of 1990, the text of the second movement is a poem to Mary, "Of a Rose, a lovely Rose"?
• ... that Bach{{'s}} chorale cantata Meine Seel erhebt den Herren, BWV 10, is based not on a chorale, but on the Magnificat sung by Mary when she visited Elizabeth (pictured)? (for BarkingMoon)

• ... that texts by the lawyer and successful opera librettist Christian Heinrich Postel are part of Bach's St John Passion?
• ... that when Michael Weiße published 157 songs in German for the Bohemian Brethren, it was the most extensive hymnal of his time, and the first organized by topic?
• ... that three of 16 stanzas of Paul Gerhardt's hymn "O Welt, sieh hier dein Leben" appear in Bach's Passions, two in St John and two in St Matthew?
• ... that Bach used a stanza from "Vater unser im Himmelreich", Luther's versification of the Lord's Prayer, as a chorale in his St John Passion?
• ... that the Sterbelied "Valet will ich dir geben" is described in a subtitle as a song of consolation, in which a pious heart bids farewell to this world?
• ... that the third verse of Martin Schalling's death song "Herzlich lieb hab ich dich, o Herr" concludes Bach's St John Passion in its first and fourth version, ending with "praise you for ever"?
• ... that in the St John Passion structure (first page pictured), the centre of symmetry is "Durch dein Gefängnis ...", expressing: "By your prison ... came our freedom"?

Saturday in St. Martin, Idstein

• Markus Melchiori: Das Grab ist leer
• Charles Wood: Danket dem Herrn, denn er ist gütig
• Melchior Vulpius: Gelobt sei Gott im höchsten Thron
• Heinrich Schütz: Cantate Domino canticum novum
• Orlando di Lasso: Surrexit pastor bonus
• Théodore Dubois: Toccata in G

Sunday in St. Bonifatius, Wiesbaden

• Joseph Haydn: Nelson Mass
• Naji Hakim: Toccata from I Love The Colourful World

Did you know ... that Bach created an "operatic scene" in his cantata Halt im Gedächtnis Jesum Christ, BWV 67, with Jesus serenely repeating "Peace be with you" against the raging of the enemies?

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to the memory of the dead,
the scuttled, the banned
and those who have

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Remember not, Lord, {{diff|User talk:ColonelHenry|608890248|605944349|our offences}}

Sunday in St. Bonifatius, Wiesbaden

• Josef Rheinberger: Missa St. Crucis in G, op. 151 (1882)

Monday in St. Martin, Idstein

• Michael Praetorius: "O Heilger Geist, kehr bei uns ein"
• Rutter: "I will sing with the spirit"
• Melchior Vulpius: "Der Geist des Herr erfüllt das All"
• Rutter: "Nun danket alle Gott"

Did you know ... that Bach marked to repeat the opening chorus of cantata Erschallet, ihr Lieder, erklinget, ihr Saiten! BWV 172, after the final chorale?

Did you know ... that Richard Strauss reportedly composed "Traum durch die Dämmerung" ("Dream in the Twilight"), on a love poem by Otto Julius Bierbaum, in 20 minutes?

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On this day: 6 July

Did you know ... that Bach has a trumpet tell God's glory in cantata Die Himmel erzählen die Ehre Gottes, BWV 7615px, first performed in the Thomaskirche, but oboe d'amore and viola da gamba express "brotherly devotion"?

2011: {{User|BarkingMoon}} made the cantata lead DYK and left - for lack of "brotherly devotion". He expanded the Invisible Rail.

Danket dem Herrn in St. Martin, Idstein

Festive multichoral sacred music by Heinrich Schütz

• Weib, was weinest du, SWV 443
• Christ ist erstanden, SWV 470
• Also hat Gott die Welt geliebt, SWV 380
• Meine Seele erhebt den Herren, SWV 494
• Cantate Domino, SWV 81
• Jauchzet dem Herren, alle Welt, SWV 36
• [http://www.st-martin-idstein.de/index.php?id=1043&type=1 Danket dem Herrn], SWV 45

Did you know ... that in John Rutter's Latin Magnificat of 1990, the text of the second movement is a poem to Mary, "Of a Rose, a lovely Rose"?

Did you know ...

• ... that Belinda Nash researched the history of the Witch of Pungo for decades?
• ... that Idstein Castle has a witches' tower?
• ... that Luther published his Reformation theses (amore et studio elucidandae) OTD in 1517?
• ... that a friend made his fist edit OTD ten years ago, to United Nations Convention against Torture, and went on to quote "the only real nation is humanity?
• ... that a friend left in disGrace OTD four years ago?
• ... that I try to keep calm and carry reformation on?

Did you know ...

• ... that the hymn "Jesu, meine Freude" (Jesus, my joy) by Johann Franck and Johann Crüger mentions singing in defiance of the "old dragon", death, and fear?
• ... that in the motet Locus iste, composed for the dedication of the votive chapel of Linz Cathedral, Anton Bruckner requests a pause "by carefully measuring out five beats"?
• ... that Geistliche Chormusik, a collection of 29 motets by Heinrich Schütz containing a "plea for peace", appeared in 1648, when the Thirty Years' War ended?

Selig sind die Toten in St. Martin, Idstein [http://www.st-martin-idstein.de/index.php?id=1043&type=1]

Mourning, war and peace

• Heinrich Schütz: Selig sind die Toten, SWV 391
• Johann Caspar Kerll: Requiem (Introit of the Missa pro defunctis)
• Dieterich Buxtehude: Mit Fried und Freud + Klag-Lied
• John Dowland: Flow My Tears
• Arvo Pärt: Da pacem Domine
• Schütz: Nun lässest Du Deinen Diener in Frieden fahren, Nunc dimittis from Musikalische Exequien, SWV 281
• Schütz: Also hat Gott die Welt geliebt, SWV 380

Did you know ... that Arvo Pärt began his choral composition Da pacem Domine {{nowrap|(Give peace, Lord)}} two days after the 2004 Madrid train bombings?

Durch ein persönliches schlichtes Klag-Lied erweiterte Dieterich Buxtehude Mit Fried und Freud zu einer Trauermusik für seinen Vater.

Did you know ... that botanist Thomas W. Whitaker was honored for his work with {{nowrap|squashes and pumpkins}} by having a squash variety named after him?

Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir

Gratias agimus tibi

Happy birthday! - Did you know ...

• ... that Gabriel Dessauer conducted in Wiesbaden the premiere of Reger's Hebbel Requiem in the organ version of Max Beckschäfer?
• ... that the church choir Chor von St. Bonifatius celebrates 150 years today (3 October 2012), singing in Wiesbaden the premiere of a Missa solemnis by Colin Mawby, conducted by Gabriel Dessauer?
• ... that the Missa Tempore Quadragesimae by Michael Haydn, a mass suitable for Lent and Advent, contains a section in free tempo?

(shamelessly advertising "on earth peace")

Christmas eve in St. Martin, Idstein

• Michael Praetorius: "Es ist ein Ros entsprungen"
• Felix Mendelssohn: "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing"
• John Rutter: "Angels' Carol"
• "O du fröhliche, o du selige gnadenbringende Weihnachtszeit"

:: Chor St. Martin, strings, conductor: Franz Fink

Christmas day in St. Bonifatius, Wiesbaden

• Charles Gounod: St. Cecilia Mass

:: Soloists, Chor von St. Bonifatius, Hessisches Staatsorchester

:: conductor: Gabriel Dessauer

Did you know ...

• ... that the Gloria by Karl Jenkins was premiered in 2010 by The Really Big Chorus?
• ... that Bach's Magnificat in E-flat major, BWV 243a, was performed for his first Christmas as Thomaskantor in Leipzig, but its initial performance may have been earlier in 1723 at a Marian feast there?

Schon gewusst? A Boy was Born ist Benjamin Brittens erstes großes Chorwerk.

Best wishes for a happy and peaceful 2015!

Did you know ...

• ... that Bach's cantata for New Year's Day, Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied (Sing a new song unto the Lord) combines verses of two psalms and Luther's Te Deum'?
• ... that Princess Tatiana von Metternich-Winneburg (born 1 January 1915) turned the East Wing of Schloss Johannisberg into a concert hall for the Rheingau Musik Festival?
• ... that Bach composed Die Zeit, die Tag und Jahre macht (Time, which day and year doth make) in 1719 as a congratulatory cantata for the court of Anhalt-Köthen?

Did you know ...

• ... that the international Reger-Chor celebrated 25 years, singing music by Bach, {{nowrap|Van Nuffel}}, Ryelandt, and Reger's Hebbel-Requiem in Wiesbaden and Bruges?
• Johann Sebastian Bach widmete 1733 seine Missa (Kyrie und Gloria) dem Kurfürsten in Dresden, behielt aber die Partitur.
• ... that the opera house for the Dresden court, Opernhaus am Taschenberg (pictured), opened in 1667 and was dedicated as a church in 1708?
• ... that Johann Sebastian Bach reworked music from more than three decades earlier for the central piece Crucifixus in the symmetrical structure of his Mass in B minor?

Did you know ...

• ... that Bach composed his cantata Jesus nahm zu sich die Zwölfe, BWV 22, as an audition piece for the post of Thomaskantor in Leipzig, displaying a "sheer range of forms and musical expression"?
• ... that the position of Thomaskantor in Bach's time has been described as "one of the most respected and influential musical offices of Protestant Germany"?

Did you know ...

• ... that two conductors shared performances of Verdi's Messa da Requiem in St. Martin, Idstein?
• ... that Karl Jenkins conducted the premiere of his {{nowrap|Te Deum}}, "a joyous, theatrical piece", in the European Capital of Culture of 2008, Liverpool?
• ... that Karl Jenkins derived Palladio, a concerto grosso for string orchestra named after Palladio, from his TV commercial for De Beers diamonds?
• ... that the Gloria by Karl Jenkins was premiered in 2010 by {{nowrap|The Really Big Chorus}}? [http://www.st-martin-idstein.de/index.php?id=1044&type=1]

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• Mozart: Veni Sancte Spiritus
• Melchior Vulpius: "Der Geist des Herr erfüllt das All"
• Arvo Pärt: Salve Regina

Did you know ... that Arnold Schönberg arranged Bach's chorale partita on Luther's hymn for Pentecost "{{lang|de|Komm, Gott Schöpfer, Heiliger Geist}}", {{nowrap|a paraphrase}} of "{{lang|de|Veni Creator Spiritus}}"?

Did you know ...

• ... that the 1715 Bach cantata O heilges Geist- und Wasserbad, BWV 165,20px relates to Jesus teaching Nicodemus about "being born of water and of the Spirit"?
• ... that the organ in the village church of Störmthal was approved by Bach and dedicated with a cantata written for the occasion?
• ... that Ernst Pepping composed symphonies, a German mass in 1938, a Latin mass in 1948, and {{lang|de|Jesus und Nikodemus}}?

50 years St. Martin, Idstein

:* Bach: Sinfonia from Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir, Air & Gavotte

:* Brixi: Missa brevis in C

:* Bruckner: Locus iste

:* Rutter: Nun danket alle Gott

Did you know ...

• ... that Johannes Krahn designed the Bienenkorbhaus (Beehive House) in Frankfurt and St. Martin in Idstein?
• ... that two conductors shared performances of Verdi's Messa da Requiem in St. Martin, Idstein?

• that Gabriela Eibenová (pictured) flew from Prague to Frankfurt to fill in for a soprano in Bach's Mass in B minor in St. Martin, Idstein?
• ... that John Eliot Gardiner noted the "immensity, vigour, flexibility and imagination of the opening chorus" of Brich dem Hungrigen dein Brot, BWV 39?
• ... that in the motet Locus iste, composed for the dedication of the votive chapel of Linz Cathedral, Anton Bruckner requests a pause "by carefully measuring out five beats"?

• more memories?

I adopted a kitten and named her Ala.

• Gabriel Fauré: Cantique de Jean Racine op. 11 (1865)
• Olivier Latry: Salve Regina (2007)
• Gabriel Fauré: Requiem op. 48 (1888)

: Saturday 7 November in St. Bonifatius, Wiesbaden (pictured)

: Sunday 15 November in St. Martin, Idstein

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Christmas eve in St. Martin, Idstein

• {{lang|la|Puer natus est pro nobis}}
• Giovanni Paolo Cima: {{lang|la|Hodie Christus natus est}}
• Tomás Luis de Victoria: {{lang|la|O magnum mysterium}}
• Jan Sandström: {{lang|de|Es ist ein Ros entsprungen}}

Christmas day in St. Bonifatius, Wiesbaden

• Bach: chorale movements from Christmas Oratorio (1, 5, 24, 43, 54, 59, 64)
  

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• ... that music from Bach's cantata for New Year's Day,
  Gott, wie dein Name, so ist auch dein Ruhm,
  BWV 171, appears in his Mass in B minor?
• ... that the ice-breaking in the title
  Islossningen i Uleå älv, a 1889 composition for
  narrator, men's chorus, and orchestra
  by Jean Sibelius, was a political statement?

:: 14 Feb Gunsenheimer: Die Versuchung Jesu

:: 25 Mar Kuhnau Tristis est anima mea

:: 27 Mar Haydn: Missa in tempore belli

:: 16 Apr Haydn Die Schöpfung

:: 12 Jun Rossini Petite messe solennelle 20px

:: 27 Aug Reger Der 100. Psalm 20px

:: 3 Oct Mendelssohn Elias

:: 6 Nov Reulein Laudato si'

Did you know ...

• ... that director Frank Stähle revived the choir and orchestra of Dr. Hoch's Konservatorium and conducted them in Mozart's Requiem for the centenary of the Lutherkirche?
• ... that Max Deutsch intentionally destroyed his compositions so that his only surviving legacy would be his students?

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:: 29 Jan – Reulein – Laudato si' – Frankfurt Cathedral

:: 19 Feb – Praetorius – Mass for two choirs – St. Martin, Idstein 15px

:: 5 Mar – Rossini – Petite messe solennelle 15px – Herz Jesu Oberrad

:: 16 Apr – Beethoven – Mass in C major – St. Bonifatius, Wiesbaden

:: 4 Jun – William Lloyd Webber – Missa Princeps Pacis – St. Bonifatius

:: 25 Jun – Missa Princeps Pacis – Propsteikirche, Leipzig

:: 3 Oct – Handel – Der Messias 18px – St. Bonifatius

:: 5 Nov – Reger – Der 100. Psalm 15px – St. Stefanus, Ghent

:: 18 Nov – Rutter – Requiem – St. Bonifatius

:: 26 Dec - Haydn: Theresienmesse - St. Bonifatius

Francis Poulenc (7 January 1899 – 30 January 1963)

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Did you know ...

... that the communion song "Gott sei gelobet und gebenedeiet", which Martin Luther derived from an older model, entered Catholic hymnals in the 20th century?

... that Martin Luther paraphrased in "Mitten wir im Leben sind mit dem Tod umfangen" the Latin "Media vita in morte sumus" (In the midst of life we are in death), including its Trisagion?

... that "Wär Gott nicht mit uns diese Zeit", a hymn by the Protestant reformer Martin Luther based on Psalm 124, appears in the current Protestant hymnal only partly, within stanzas from a colleague's hymn?

... that "Erhalt uns, Herr, bei deinem Wort" by Luther was titled "A hymn for the children to sing against the two arch-enemies of Christ, and His Holy Church, the Pope and the Turks"?

... that "Es woll uns Gott genädig sein", a paraphrase by Martin Luther of Psalm 67 in German, appeared in the Erfurt Enchiridion in 1524?

... that "Dies sind die heilgen Zehn Gebot" is a hymnal version of the Ten Commandments by Martin Luther?

... that Martin Luther wrote the song of praise "Die beste Zeit im Jahr ist mein" (The best time of the year is mine)
as part of a poem, not as a hymn?

... that "Es spricht der Unweisen Mund wohl" ("The mouth of fools doth God confess") by Martin Luther was one of eight hymns in the first Lutheran hymnal?

Did you know ...

... that Bach wrote the chorale
"O Lamm Gottes, unschuldig"
(O Lamb of God, innocent)
in red between the music for the two choirs
in the beginning of his St Matthew Passion?

... that Bach set a stanza
from the evening hymn
"Werde munter, mein Gemüte"
(Become cheerful, my mind),
which Johann Rist and Johann Schop created in collaboration, in his St Matthew Passion?

... that tenor Max Ciolek performed
the Evangelist in Bach's Passions,
and the Mass in B minor
with La Petite Bande in Australia?

Did you know ...

... that "Christ ist erstanden" (Christ is risen),
possibly the oldest German hymn, mentioned in the 12th century,
was set for choir in the 21st?

... that Charles Villiers Stanford composed the anthem for Easter
"Why seek ye the living?" on {{Sourcetext|source=Bible|version=King James|book=Luke|chapter=24|verse=5|range=–7}} for mixed choir and organ, when he was organist at Trinity College, Cambridge?

... that Ursula Zollenkopf, a contralto of the NWDR Chor, performed solo and choral parts in a posthumous Schoenberg opera premiere
and in an Easter cantata by Bach?

... that Bach's cantata for Easter Monday, Bleib bei uns, denn es will Abend werden, BWV 6,
is based on the Road to Emmaus narration?

... that the opening chorus of Bach{{'s}} cantata for the Second Day of Easter, Erfreut euch, ihr Herzen, BWV 66, has been termed "one of the longest and most exhilarating of Bach's early works"?

Did you know ...

... that "Der Geist des Herrn erfüllt das All", a hymn for Pentecost,
was written by Maria Luise Thurmair in 1941,
the year of her marriage to the hymn writer Georg Thurmair?

... that Erwünschtes Freudenlicht, BWV 184,
Bach's cantata for the third day of Pentecost,
contains dances, because it is based on a secular model?

Did you know ...

... that when Debussy wrote his cantata La Damoiselle élue,
setting a poem by Dante Gabriel Rossetti,
he had probably not seen the poet's painting of the subject?

... that the Twelve Fantasias for Viola da Gamba solo,
published by the composer Georg Philipp Telemann in 1735,
were believed lost but published again in 2016?

... that Paula Murrihy, who appeared in operatic title roles
such as Dido, Carmen, Hänsel and the Rosenkavalier,
sang Lieder with viola and piano for the Hessischer Rundfunk?

... that Nicole Chevalier was awarded Der Faust
for her performance of the four female characters
in Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffman at the Komische Oper Berlin?

... that Marc Soustrot conducted at the Frankfurt Opera a staging of both
Debussy's cantata La Damoiselle élue
and Honegger's oratorio Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher?

Did you know ...

... that the Basilica of St. James in Levoča contains the world's tallest carved wooden altar?

Did you know ...

... that the second of Five Childhood Lyrics,
compositions for an unaccompanied choir
by John Rutter, is Edward Lear's
"The Owl and the Pussycat" ?

Did you know ...

... that accordionist Vincent Peirani and pianist Michael Wollny,
both multiple ECHO Jazz winners,
recorded the "symbiotic" album Tandem?

... that when the jazz pianist Michael Wollny was artist in residence
of the Rheingau Musik Festival, he played a concert with
Andreas Schaerer, Émile Parisien and Vincent Peirani?

File:Michael-Wollny.jpg|Wollny

File:Andreas Schaerer.jpg|Schaerer

File:Deutsches Jazzfestival 2015 - Duo Belle Epoque - Émile Parisien - 02.jpg|Parisien

File:Deutsches Jazzfestival 2015 - Duo Belle Epoque - Vincent Peirani - 02 (cropped).jpg|Peirani

Green Year

File:Loipe Engenhahn.jpg|Cross country

File:Schneeglöckchen Idstein.jpg|Snow drops

File:Schlehen Rauenthal.jpg|Blackthorn blossom

File:Mandeln Rüdesheim.jpg|Almond blossom

File:Schwalbenschwanz Lorch.jpg|Swallow tail

File:Altrhein Geinsheim.jpg|Old Rhine

File:Disteln Velky Kliz.jpg|Thistles

File:See Velky Kliz.jpg|Mountain lake

File:Sonnenblumen Idstein.jpg|Sunflowers

File:Buchen Idstein.jpg|Beech trees in fall

File:Hagebutten Martinsthal.jpg|Rose hips

File:Fichte Idstein.jpg|Spruce in snow