{"id":7427,"date":"2023-12-23T08:00:01","date_gmt":"2023-12-23T07:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.henle.de\/en\/?p=7427"},"modified":"2023-12-22T16:01:07","modified_gmt":"2023-12-22T15:01:07","slug":"christmas-blog-post-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.henle.de\/en\/2023\/12\/23\/christmas-blog-post-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Blog Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.henle.de\/en\/files\/2023\/12\/Abbildung-1-scaled.jpeg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-7429\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.henle.de\/en\/files\/2023\/12\/Abbildung-1-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.henle.de\/en\/files\/2023\/12\/Abbildung-1-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/blog.henle.de\/en\/files\/2023\/12\/Abbildung-1-300x150.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blog.henle.de\/en\/files\/2023\/12\/Abbildung-1-1024x512.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.henle.de\/en\/files\/2023\/12\/Abbildung-1-768x384.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blog.henle.de\/en\/files\/2023\/12\/Abbildung-1-1536x768.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.henle.de\/en\/files\/2023\/12\/Abbildung-1-2048x1023.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a>Unlike Johann Sebastian Bach, whose Christmas Oratorio and numerous Advent cantatas are an integral part of December, Joseph Haydn is not exactly known now as a Christmas composer. Nevertheless, in Series XXII, Volume 2\/1 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.henle.de\/en\/Verschiedene-kirchenmusikalische-Werke-Volume-I\/HN-5541\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HN 5541<\/a>), of its Joseph Haydn Complete Edition, the Henle publishing house has brought out a series of small vocal works that Haydn composed for the Esterhazy\u2019s matutinal Advent masses in the years 1765\u201369 and 1773\u201376. The <em>Cantilena pro adventu<\/em> in D major Hob. XXIIId:3 was probably composed in 1768. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Our Christmas blog post is not an appropriate place to go fully into its problematic transmission history, but we can say this much: it\u2019s fairly certain that the music is by Haydn, though there are quite a few question marks regarding the vocal text. The sources include, inter alia, both a vernacular and Latin text \u2013 \u201cIhr Kinderlein kommet\u201d (a German Christmas carol) also underlays the melody. The complete edition assumes that the text written in the Burgenland dialect, \u201cHerst Nachb\u00e4\u201d (\u201cListen neighbour\u201d), comes closest to the original. It looks like this on the first page of the complete-edition score:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.henle.de\/en\/files\/2023\/12\/HN5541-135.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-7443\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.henle.de\/en\/files\/2023\/12\/HN5541-135.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"656\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.henle.de\/en\/files\/2023\/12\/HN5541-135.png 10103w, https:\/\/blog.henle.de\/en\/files\/2023\/12\/HN5541-135-229x300.png 229w, https:\/\/blog.henle.de\/en\/files\/2023\/12\/HN5541-135-780x1024.png 780w, https:\/\/blog.henle.de\/en\/files\/2023\/12\/HN5541-135-768x1008.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.henle.de\/en\/files\/2023\/12\/HN5541-135-1170x1536.png 1170w, https:\/\/blog.henle.de\/en\/files\/2023\/12\/HN5541-135-1560x2048.png 1560w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The \u201cPastorella\u201d swings along in the 6\/8 time typical of the genre. And to close this year, difficult in many respects and characterised by many worries, in a Christmassy and hopeful mood, we recommend listening to this recording of the <em>Cantilena<\/em>, together with reading the accompanying text (this High German version is not extant, however, in the historical sources):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"J. Haydn - Hob XXIIId:3 - Cantilena pro adventu in D major\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/axJ2Te_92uE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.henle.de\/en\/files\/2023\/12\/Text_dt_eng_Seite_1.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-7434 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.henle.de\/en\/files\/2023\/12\/Text_dt_eng_Seite_1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2148\" height=\"1732\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.henle.de\/en\/files\/2023\/12\/Text_dt_eng_Seite_1.png 2148w, https:\/\/blog.henle.de\/en\/files\/2023\/12\/Text_dt_eng_Seite_1-300x242.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.henle.de\/en\/files\/2023\/12\/Text_dt_eng_Seite_1-1024x826.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.henle.de\/en\/files\/2023\/12\/Text_dt_eng_Seite_1-768x619.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.henle.de\/en\/files\/2023\/12\/Text_dt_eng_Seite_1-1536x1239.png 1536w, https:\/\/blog.henle.de\/en\/files\/2023\/12\/Text_dt_eng_Seite_1-2048x1651.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2148px) 100vw, 2148px\" \/><\/a>We wish our readers happy holidays and all the best in the New Year!<\/p>\n<p>Your Henle blog\u2019s team of authors<br \/>\n<em>Norbert Gertsch<br \/>\n<\/em><em>Peter Jost<br \/>\n<\/em><em>Norbert M\u00fcllemann<br \/>\n<\/em><em>Annette Oppermann<br \/>\n<\/em><em>Dominik Rahmer<br \/>\n<\/em><em>Wolf-Dieter Seiffert<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike Johann Sebastian Bach, whose Christmas Oratorio and numerous Advent &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.henle.de\/en\/2023\/12\/23\/christmas-blog-post-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[283,320,6],"tags":[96,808,809],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.henle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7427"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.henle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.henle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.henle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.henle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7427"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blog.henle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7448,"href":"https:\/\/blog.henle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7427\/revisions\/7448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.henle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.henle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.henle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}