Hat man nicht mit seinen Kindern Johann Sebastian Bach / Arr. Matteo Firmi

Titel / Title: Hat man nicht mit seinen Kindern
Untertitel / Subtitle: from the Kaffeekantate BWV 211
Herausgeber / Publisher: Baton Music
Instrumentation: Horn and Clarinet Quartet
Produkttyp / Product: Partitur + Stimmen
Serie / Series: Baton Music ebsemble series

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.