Bach Cantata Texts, Poetic Techniques, and Meanings

• The discussion in this issue was first presented as a round table session at the Leipzig Bachfest in June 2022, as part of our session ‘Bach Network in Dialogue’. The aim of the Leipzig presentation was to give a taster of the format of our biennial Johann Sebastian Bach Dialogue Meetings. It included a shorter version of the discussion recorded here as ‘Bach Cantata Texts, Poetic Techniques, and Meanings’. When the two presenters took their places on the platform before the Bachfest audience in June, neither knew what the other would say. Michael Maul was to respond ex tempore to the two talks, while the moderator, Larry Molinaro, was to introduce the session and field the public questions. When time constraints forced the conversations to a premature close, we realised that this wide-ranging topic would make a valuable contribution to Discussing Bach.

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Johann Sebastian Bach; Cantatas; Poetry; Structure; Parallelism; Anagrams; 18th century

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