Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied, TWV 1:1343, is a
church cantata for Ascension by
Georg Philipp Telemann. It was composed on a text by
Johann Friedrich Helbig, and belongs to Telemann's year-cycle without recitative (). The cantata has these movements: • "Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied" (
aria for
alto) • "Christus hat den Lauf vollendet" (
da capo aria for
tenor) • "Christ fuhr gen Himmel" (
chorale) • "Seid ihr nun mit Christo auferstanden" (aria for
bass) • "Soll euch Christi Himmelfahrt" (aria for
soprano) • "Zeuch Jesu uns zeuch uns nach dir" (chorale) The cantata is in
D major. Around the middle of the 18th century, Christian Gotthilf Sensenschmidt made a copy of the cantata, consisting of a score and performance parts. In that copy, the cantata is scored for
SATB soloists and chorus,
strings (two
violin parts, one
viola part and one
cello part), two
clarinos,
timpani and
continuo (
figured part for
organ,
bassoon, and the cello part). A version of the cantata with a somewhat different scoring (including two additional
oboes) was performed in 1725 in
Frankfurt am Main. Sensenschmidt's copy of the cantata came in the possession of
Carl Ferdinand Becker, and was later added to the collection of the Leipzig City Library. A digital facsimile of the Becker manuscript was made available on the
SLUB Dresden website. ==TWV 1:1344, for Easter==