page_title: Geschwinde, geschwinde, ihr wirbelnden Winde, BWV 201
hierarchical_section_title: Geschwinde, geschwinde, ihr wirbelnden Winde, BWV 201
caption_attribution_description: English: Apollon with the lyra, having defeated Pan in musical competition, with Pan's flute under his foot; sculpture in Schwerin, SchlossgartenDeutsch: Apoll mit der Lyra nach dem Sieg über Pan im musikalischen Wettstreit; unter seinem Fuß die Panflöte; im Schlossgarten Schwerin
context_page_description: Geschwinde, geschwinde, ihr wirbelnden Winde, BWV 201, is a secular cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach, on a libretto by Picander. It is a dramma per musica, likely composed for a public performance in 1729, around which time its oldest extant printed libretto was published. The text, titled Der Streit zwischen Phoebus und Pan, is based on the "Ears of a Donkey" story in Ovid's Metamorphoses, and mocks unsophisticated music in favour of a more intelligent composition style.
  The music is scored for SATTBB singers, and a baroque orchestra which includes trumpets, timpani, traversos, oboes, strings and continuo. The cantata has been recorded several times from the 1950s to the 21st century.
context_section_description: Geschwinde, geschwinde, ihr wirbelnden Winde (Swift, swift, you swirling winds), BWV 201, is a secular cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach, on a libretto by Picander (pen name of Christian Friedrich Henrici). It is a dramma per musica, likely composed for a public performance in 1729, around which time its oldest extant printed libretto was published. The text, titled Der Streit zwischen Phoebus und Pan (The Contest between Phoebus and Pan), is based on the "Ears of a Donkey" story in Ovid's Metamorphoses, and mocks unsophisticated music in favour of a more intelligent composition style.
  The music is scored for SATTBB singers, and a baroque orchestra which includes trumpets, timpani, traversos, oboes, strings and continuo. The cantata has been recorded several times from the 1950s to the 21st century.
caption: Phoebus Apollo with the lyre, having defeated Pan in musical competition, with Pan's flute under his foot; sculpture in the Schlossgarten of Schwerin, Germany, 1720
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