User:Gerda Arendt/2015

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User:Gerda Arendt
Te Deum
Born	(2009-08-02) 2 August 2009 (age 15) Idstein, Germany
Other names	User:Gerda the Notorious Infoboxen wikiCriminal[1]
Education	Technische Hochschule Hannover
Occupations	singen, singen singen, singen singen, singen
Known for	List of Bach cantatas Erschallet, ihr Lieder He was despised Franz Kafka {{User QAIbox}}
Criminal penalty	Arbcom sanctions on parole until 30 November
Awards	Precious (given) blushing Million
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Did you know ...

• ... that in his Christmas cantata Unser Mund sei voll Lachens, BWV 110, Bach embedded voices in the overture of his fourth orchestral suite and achieved a "marvellous rendition of laughter-in-music"?
• ... 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 Handel's Messiah, Part II contains the famous Hallelujah Chorus and the oratorio's longest movement, the air for alto He was despised?
• ... that rehearsing Dvořák's Eighth Symphony, a conductor said: "Gentlemen, in Bohemia the trumpets never call to battle – they always call to the dance!"?* ... that a church's 1510 spiral of justice declares: "Justice suffered in great need. Truth is slain dead. Faith has lost the battle"?
• ... that a review of Chieftain's Salute by Graham Waterhouse called the Great Highland Bagpipe the orchestra's "real partner in this virile, rousing piece of music"?
• ... that "Geh aus, mein Herz, und suche Freud", written by Paul Gerhardt after the Thirty Years War, was translated as "Go Forth, My Heart, and Seek Delight"?
• ... that in the structure of Bach's St John Passion (first page pictured), the centre of symmetry is "Durch dein Gefängnis ...", expressing: "By your prison ... came our freedom"?
• ... that Karl Jenkins conducted the premiere of his Te Deum, "a joyous, theatrical piece", in the European Capital of Culture of 2008, Liverpool?
• ... 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 Bach has a trumpet tell God's glory in cantata Die Himmel erzählen die Ehre Gottes, BWV 76, but oboe d'amore and viola da gamba express "brotherly devotion"?
• ... that Bishop Franz Kamphaus opposed the pope, "convinced that our way of counselling women would save the lives of many more children"?

• ... that it took more than half a century to complete the Neue Bach-Ausgabe, the second edition of the collected works of Johann Sebastian Bach?
• ... that Bach used music of thanks from his cantata Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir, BWV 29, for his final Dona nobis pacem (Grant us peace)?