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Along with the Coffee Cantata (BWV 211), the Peasant Cantata reveals
Bach's rich but little-known comedic vein. The occasion of its
composition was the appointment in 1742 of the Leipzig chamberlain Carl
Heinrich von Dieskau as Provost 642-456 exam (ruler) of a number of villages in the
immediate vicinity of Leipzig, where Bach was based as cantor. To
celebrate the event (and Dieskau's birthday), a fête was held,
probably in the village of Klein-Zschocher, at which the principal
entertainment was a firework display and the performance of Bach's
cantata. The idea for a musical contribution came from 70-450 exam Picander, the
pseudonym of poet Christian Friedrich Henrici, himself a government
official in Leipzig. Bach had enjoyed a particularly fruitful
collaboration with Picander during the 1730s, the partnership producing
not only the St. Matthew Passion and ,
but a number of sacred and secular cantatas. There are two rustic
characters in this cantata, a courting couple sung by soprano and bass,
Picander accordingly setting parts of the text in Saxon dialect (the
title is an example). It is now also known that Bach's music drew
heavily, perhaps exclusively, on popular tunes of the day, giving the
cantata a deliberately bucolic MB2-631 exam character unique in his music. The
opening sinfonia, a potpourri of dance tunes, is followed by a duet
based on a rustic bourrée in which the couple celebrate the arrival of
a new lord of the manor who gives them beer -- "real strong stuff."