Aeolus, the mythological god of the winds, towards the end of summer gives the winds the all clear to proceed with autumnal destruction. Aeolus figures in both Virgil’s Aeneid and Homer’s Odyssey.
The libretto for Bach’s secular cantata was written by Christian Friedrich Henrici (Picander), its story derived from, or more precisely…
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