Editing Cantata (section)

===Graupner's cantatas===
[[Christoph Graupner]] was Hofkapellmeister at the court of [[Hesse-Darmstadt]] and provided over 1,400 cantatas during his nearly 50 years of employment there, making him the most significant contributor to the genre. While only a handful of Bach's cantatas contain accompanied chorales (the vocal parts are usually doubled by the instrumental parts), nearly all of Graupner's chorales feature elaborate ritornello sections.<ref>Richard Kram, ''The Cantata Chorales of Christoph Graupner'', 2013</ref> This is possibly because Bach's Leipzig congregation was expected to sing along with them, but the Darmstadt court was not. Also, many of Graupner's cantatas exploit elaborate orchestral effects and use exotic instrumentation, such as [[chalumeau]], [[flûte d'amour]], [[oboe d'amore]], [[viola d'amore]], [[trumpet]]s, [[horn (instrument)|horn]]s and [[timpani]]. See: [[List of cantatas by Christoph Graupner]].