User:Gerda Arendt/Images 2019
A happy year 2019
full of
inspiration
,
increasing knowledge
,
good conversations
, and
new images
!
we give thanks
Gratias agimus
Did you know ...
... that
Bach
set the phrase
"
Unto thee, O God, do we give thanks
" from
Psalm 75
in German to begin
a cantata
,
and in Latin in his
Mass in B minor
? (
28 Feb
)
... that
Fallt mit Danken, fallt mit Loben
(Fall with thanks, fall with praise),
Part IV of Bach's
Christmas Oratorio
for New Year's Day 1735,
celebrates the
naming of Jesus
? (
23 Jan
)
... that "
Wir pflügen und wir streuen
",
with words by
Matthias Claudius
,
began as a song of a fictional harvest festival,
and is now a Protestant hymn for
Erntedankfest
?