A piece in this genre composed for a business owned by Gottfried Zimmermann features a father whose name translates as “stick in the mud.” The passacaglia that ends Brahms’s fourth symphony uses a theme from a piece in this genre. The Soli Deo Gloria record label was created for a “pilgrimage” tour of pieces in this genre led by John Eliot Gardiner. A composer created weekly pieces in this genre for a (*) Leipzig church and later composed another cycle with Picander. The first 250 pieces in the BWV catalogue are in this genre. In one of these pieces, Lieschen is addicted to a substance she describes as “sweeter than a thousand kisses.” Another of these pieces contains the chorale “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring.” For 10 points, J. S. Bach’s many pieces in what choral genre include one titled for coffee? ■END■
ANSWER: cantatas [accept sacred cantatas or secular cantatas; accept Coffee Cantata; prompt on choral works or chorales before read]
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