chorale cantata

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In cantata
…(1723–25) he developed the so-called chorale cantata, which begins with an elaborate choral fantasy on the first stanza of a hymn and closes with a simple harmonization of the last stanza in which the congregation presumably joined. The intermediate stanzas are paraphrased in the texts of recitatives and arias for…
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