Jauchzet dem Herrn alle Welt (motet)
motet with music by Georg Philipp Telemann and Johann Sebastian Bach
Jauchzet dem Herrn alle Welt is a three-movement pasticcio motet for double SATB choir. It includes music by Georg Philipp Telemann and Johann Sebastian Bach. The text of the motet is a German paraphrase of Psalm 100.
There is some doubt as to who compiled the work: it may have been Bach or Gottlob Harrer, who after Bach's death in 1750 succeeded him as Thomaskantor. Jauchzet dem Herrn alle Welt appears as BWV Anh. 160, that is in Anhang III, the annex of spurious works, of the 1998 edition of the Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis (BWV). Later it was renumbered to BWV App. A 4. In the catalogue of works by Telemann (TWV) the motet has the number 8:10.
History
The scribe of one of the extant manuscripts of the work, a manuscript that attributes the work to Bach, was formerly believed to be Johann Christoph Altnickol, Bach's son-in-law, but appears actually to be Johann Christoph Farlau.
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