O heilges Geist- und Wasserbad, BWV 165 (Score) Jakub Jan Ryba based as its most important

based as its most important source on the conducting score from which Handel himself directed his performances

This edition includes also the traditional version

Julian Fontana

the 1723 cantata is in no way inferior to the later festive music in terms of musical splendor

Charles Jennens fashioned a libretto from these texts

O heilges Geist- und Wasserbad, BWV 165 (Score) Jakub Jan Ryba based as its most importantThe cantata "O heilges Geist und Wasserbad" (O Holy spirits solemn rite) BWV 165 is one of Bach's earliest cantata compositions and was presumably first performed in the Weimar Schlosskirche for Trinity Sunday in 1715. With a simple instrumentation of only strings and basso continuo (including bassoon), the cantata offers an alternative to the later Leipzig cantatas for the Feast of the Holy Trinity, also with regard to the vivid interpretation of the