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#ClassicsaDay #ClassicalChristmas Week 2
December is a time of traditions. And the Classics a Day feed is no different. We continue our tradition of making Classical Christmas our December theme.
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The challenge is to post music related to the season. So sacred works for Advent and Christmas, secular works about winter, or even just music written and/or premiered in December.
Here are my posts for the second week in December.
12/05/22 Arnold Bax: Winter Legends
Bax described this large-scale work for piano and orchestra as “a northern nature piece full of sea and pine forest and dark legends.”
12/06/22 William Billings: Boston
Billing’s “Boston” is one of America’s earliest original Christmas hymns. It was published in “The Singing Master’s Assistant” of 1778.
12/07/22 Johann Kuhnau: Wenn ihr fröhlich seid an euren Festen
Kuhnau was the kapellmeister at St. Thomaskirche, Leipzig for 18 years. Upon his death, Johann Sebastian Bach was hired as his replacement.
12/08/22 Louis-Claude Daquin: Noel VI
Daquin’s 1757 publication Nouveau livre de noëls is standard repertoire for organists. It features his settings of traditional French carols.
12/09/22 Georg Philipp Telemann: Cantata am Feste der heiligen drei Konige from Harmonischer Gottes-Dienst
I could do the entire month of posts with Telemann Christmas cantatas. We’ll settle for this one from 1726 — for now