Trauer-Actus "Ach, wie nichtig, ach wie flüchtig", TVWV 1:38 (Score) AL30378 Pieter Dirksen discusses various aspects

Pieter Dirksen discusses various aspects of these pieces' origins

short enough to meet the requirements of a festive service

In seven movements the young composer knew how to create with the voice (a–d2) and the small instrumental ensemble a rich palette of forms and affections

is a more or less strongly evident tendency towards contrapuntal writing

Leopold Mozart described KV 262

Trauer-Actus "Ach, wie nichtig, ach wie flüchtig", TVWV 1:38 (Score) AL30378 Pieter Dirksen discusses various aspectsThe Trauer Actus is probably the earliest work in the Grimma collection of Telemann cantatas. Its textual and musical structur indicates that this work dates from Telemanns apprentice years at Hildesheim, between about 1696 97 and 1701. It belongs to a category of cantatas in which biblical quotations are brought together to etablish a particular theme, which can be supportet by existing hymns (se also Bachs Actus tragicus).