Johann Sebastian Bach
Hat man nicht mit seinen Kindern…
from the Kaffeekantate BWV 211
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Hat man nicht mit seinen Kindern…
from the Kaffeekantate BWV 211
- Instrumentation Horn, 3 Clarinets and Bass Clarinet
- Composer Johann Sebastian Bach
- Editor Matteo Firmi
- Series Baton Ensemble
- Edition Score and Parts Download
- Publisher Baton Music
- Order no. BTM1133-DL
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'Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht' ('Be still, stop chattering'), BWV 211, also known as the 'Kaffeekantate' ('Coffee Cantata'), is a secular cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach composed between 1732 and 1735. Although classified as a cantata, it is essentially a miniature comic opera. In a satirical commentary, the cantata amusingly tells of an addiction to coffee. The libretto suggests that some people in eighteenth-century Germany viewed coffee drinking as a bad habit. In the first aria of the cantata sings Schlendrian 'Hat man nicht mit seinen Kindern...': he is in disgust of how his daughter refuses to listen to him, even after telling her 100.000 times. Italian arranger Matteo Firmi transcribed this aria for a Horn solo with accompaniment of a Clarinet Quartet.