O heilges Geist- und Wasserbad (O holy bath of Spirit and water), BWV 165, is a
church cantata by
Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed it in
Weimar for
Trinity Sunday and led the first performance on 16 June 1715. It was one in a series of cantatas he had been writing since his promotion to concertmaster at the Weimar court in the ducal palace, one cantata each month over the previous year. The
libretto by the court poet
Salomo Franck is based on the day's
prescribed gospel reading about the meeting of Jesus and
Nicodemus(pictured in a contemporary painting). Close in content to the gospel, the text connects the concept of the
Trinity to
baptism. The music is structured in six movements, alternating
arias and
recitatives, and scored for a small ensemble of four vocal parts, strings and continuo. The closing chorale is the fifth stanza of a hymn by
Ludwig Helmbold which mentions scripture, baptism and the
Eucharist. The text, full of Baroque imagery, reads like a sermon set to music, especially in the two recitatives for the bass voice, which are rich in musical contrasts. Bach probably led a second performance on the Trinity Sunday concluding his first year as
Cantor at St. Thomas in
Leipzig on 4 June 1724. (
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1935 – A 7.7
Mw earthquake struckBalochistan in the
British Raj, now part of Pakistan, killing anywhere between 30,000 and 60,000 people.
1981 – An organized mob of police and government-sponsored paramilitias began burning the public library in
Jaffna, Sri Lanka, destroying over 97,000 items in one of the most violent examples of ethnic
biblioclasm of the 20th century.
Compound eyes on a
blue bottle fly. Unlike simple eyes, which have a single concave photoreceptive surface, compound eyes consist of a number of individual lenses (called
ommatidia) laid out on a convex surface; this means that they point in slightly different directions. Compound eyes provide a wide
field of view and can detect fast movement, but have low resolution.
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O heilges Geist- und Wasserbad (O holy bath of Spirit and water), BWV 165, is a
church cantata by
Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed it in
Weimar for
Trinity Sunday and led the first performance on 16 June 1715. It was one in a series of cantatas he had been writing since his promotion to concertmaster at the Weimar court in the ducal palace, one cantata each month over the previous year. The
libretto by the court poet
Salomo Franck is based on the day's
prescribed gospel reading about the meeting of Jesus and
Nicodemus(pictured in a contemporary painting). Close in content to the gospel, the text connects the concept of the
Trinity to
baptism. The music is structured in six movements, alternating
arias and
recitatives, and scored for a small ensemble of four vocal parts, strings and continuo. The closing chorale is the fifth stanza of a hymn by
Ludwig Helmbold which mentions scripture, baptism and the
Eucharist. The text, full of Baroque imagery, reads like a sermon set to music, especially in the two recitatives for the bass voice, which are rich in musical contrasts. Bach probably led a second performance on the Trinity Sunday concluding his first year as
Cantor at St. Thomas in
Leipzig on 4 June 1724. (
Full article...)
1935 – A 7.7
Mw earthquake struckBalochistan in the
British Raj, now part of Pakistan, killing anywhere between 30,000 and 60,000 people.
1981 – An organized mob of police and government-sponsored paramilitias began burning the public library in
Jaffna, Sri Lanka, destroying over 97,000 items in one of the most violent examples of ethnic
biblioclasm of the 20th century.
Compound eyes on a
blue bottle fly. Unlike simple eyes, which have a single concave photoreceptive surface, compound eyes consist of a number of individual lenses (called
ommatidia) laid out on a convex surface; this means that they point in slightly different directions. Compound eyes provide a wide
field of view and can detect fast movement, but have low resolution.
This Wikipedia is written in
English. Started in 2001 (2001), it currently contains
4,881,338 articles.
Many other Wikipedias are available; some of the largest are listed below.