12 minuteries AL27825 Bach wrote the cantata "Du

Bach wrote the cantata "Du wahrer Gott und Davids Sohn" as a test piece in connection with his application for the position of Cantor of St

gave him the opportunity to display his musical artistry: John Dryden’s ode “Alexander’s Feast or the Power of Music”

18th century German

worked-out pieces with greater expressive intensity

which were intended by this weary Court Composer at Mantua as an application portfolio for a new job

12 minuteries AL27825 Bach wrote the cantata "Du12 Minuteries, small minute pieces or minutely detailed "movements, " the first of which originally intended as a demonstration piece for a crash course in twelve tone music at a Swiss lyce was then expanded by 11 additional movements and an epilogue. Simple ideas and contrasts, which increasingly develop into properly confusing structures, ascending chromatically from piece to piece from the starting tone of B to B flat, whereby as the actual 13th