Look Who it Was Random video

Telemann - Danish Cantata - Movement no. 18 to 20

3,050 views · Published 18 January 2010 · 7:05 · Indexed 27 October 2026

Channel: stigekalder · 2010 · Music

Watch on YouTube

★★★ My playlist with Danish choral pieces:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCby7t-aPVUkT1pcEnBKjPyqBiR0C_Rfa

Georg Philipp Telemann (1681 - 1767):
DANISH CANTATA (movement no. 18 to 20)

"De Danske, Norske og Tydske Undersaatters Glæde"

("The joy of the King of Denmark's Danish, Norwegian and German Subjects")

In 1757, Telemann was commissioned to compose this cantata for the birthday of the Danish King Frederick V, which was celebrated in the Christianeum school in Altona (near Hamburg) on March 31, 1757. The text, which contains sections in Danish, German and Latin, was provided by Salomon Von Haven, who was clergyman in The church of Our Lady in Odense, Denmark. 

At that time, Telemann was living in Hamburg. He was in charge of the music for the five principal churches and as the musical director of the city also had to write music for special occations, such as installation of new clergymen, annual celebrations of the citizen captains, chamber of commerce etc. He also composed music for private or family celebrations of the business class and nobility, concerts that he himself organized, and private commisions from friends or persons who had some connection with him. He was also in charge of the Hamburg Gänsemarkt Opera, and provided compositions on a regular basis for the court in Eisenach and for the Markgraves of Bayreuth.

Telemann was always open to new ideas from younger generations of musicians, and during the last ten years of his life he wrote a series of quite outstanding compositions reflecting an astonishing talent for melodic invention. The present cantata can surely be numbered among these works.

The cantata was printed in Hamburg in 1757. The music score which is presented in this video originates from this edition.

18. Coro:
O, how happy is the day which God, the Almighty Father, himself made happiest for the Northern world of Denmark with Norway, Holstein and Oldenburg, granting the realm as a divine image the best king, and to that king a most fertile marriage bed, and to that marriage bed the fairest offspring.

19. Duetto:
O, how welcome will it not be, that grace of the thrice best God, if the years of our king, as we fervently pray, shall be as many as Nestor's! Long live the whole royal household! Let our fleet and army flourish everywhere on land and sea, and let every king's man, Dane, Norwegian or German, be famed both in war and at peace. O, how holy is the joy with which we offer our united prayer!

20. Coro:
May the unwavering piety, the pious justice and the prudent constancy of our most merciful king endure together with his generosity! Amen in the name of Jesus Christ; trusting in him I shall never be confounded.

(end of cantata)

Link to video with movement no. 4 to 7:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGvDNdNAaCA

Link to video with movement no. 8 to 12:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GMNtkNWPms

Link to a pdf file with the complete cantata score:
http://img.kb.dk/ma/div/telemann-undersaat.pdf

Dorothee Mields (soprano)
Britta Schwarz (alto)
Andreas Post (tenor)
Klaus Mertens / Reinhard Decker (bass)
Telemann-Kammerorchester Michaelstein
Directed by Ludger Rémy

♥♥♥♥♥
I put a lot of efforts into my videos.
If you like my work, consider supporting me with a small donation.
You can use this link (my "real" name is Niels Brandt):
https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/stigekalder
♥♥♥♥♥

★★★ Check out my Bach site:
BACH Quotes - Delve into Bach, his music and vast influences
Powered by quotations by prominent people from past to present
https://bach-quotes.net/

More from this channel