 Thanks Be to Thee (Dank sei dir Herr) |
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| File: | ochstb.nwc (March 2011) 5 kB |
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| Full name of work: | Thanks Be to Thee (Dank sei dir Herr) |
| Composer: | Ochs, Siegfried (1858-1929) German |
| Arranger: | Lonneke, Michael b. 1943 American |
| Lyricist: | Ochs, Siegfried (same as Composer |
| Translator: | unknown Originally in German as Dank sei dir Herr |
| First line: | Thanks be to Thee be ever Thine |
| Music category: | Sacred Anthem |
| Instruments: | 2 fl. + oboe + 2 tpts. + 2 tbns. + organ + tympani + cello + bass + SATB chorus |
| Name of file creator: | Michael Lonneke |
| e-mail address: | mlonneke "at" wildbllue "dot" net |
| Website: | www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Ochs-Siegfried.htm |
| Running time: | 00:03:23 |
| Comments: | For years this was passed off as being by Handel. It is, in fact, one of the most convincing Handel forgeries ever created. One source says Ochs created it for insertion into a performance of Handel’s Israel in Egypt. Ochs first studied chemistry and medicine before turning to music. Highly trained and active he was a co-founder of the Neue-Bach-Gesellschaft. Had considerable composing talent and had prodigious gifts for mimicking other composers. This is a very fine piece and is regularly performed by artists of the highest caliber without any qualms about its provenance. A few snotty music critics still pick at the piece, but such predictable disdain never dampens an audience’s appreciation of it. (Some people still maintain that it is, in actual fact, by Handel.) |
