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On the 1st Sunday after Trinity in 1723, Bach introduced himself as the new cantor to Leipzig's worshippers with the cantata Die Elenden sollen essen BWV 75. Like the cantatas for the 1st Sunday after...

Kantate zum 2. Sonntag nach Trinitatis bzw. zum Reformationsfest. Soli SATB, Coro SATB, Tr, 2 Ob/2 Obda, Vga, Vl solo, Str, Org - Tonart C-Dur / a-Moll

Bach composed the cantata Du sollst Gott, deinen Herrn lieben BWV 77 for the 13th Sunday after Trinity in 1723. Together with BWV 64 and 69.1, it belongs to a small group of cantatas on texts by Johan...

Alongside the more well-known cantata "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott" BWV 80, "Gott, der Herr, ist Sonn und Schild" BWV 79 is Bach's only other cantata for the Reformation festival. However, its centr...

Bach's Reformation cantata on what is probably Martin Luther's most famous hymn matured over many years. It began with a now lost Weimar cantata for Sunday Oculi 1716, which referred to the hymn with...

Bach wrote the cantata "Jesus sleeps, what shall I hope" BWV 81 for the 4th Sunday after Epiphany in 1724. The cantata is designed as a short drama: At the beginning, fear has the upper hand. The sea...

Kantate zum Fest Mariae Reinigung. Soli ATB, Coro SATB, 2 Ob, 2 Cor, Vl solo, Str, Org - Tonart F-Dur / d-dorisch

Kantate zum Sonntag Rogate. Soli ATB, Coro SATB, Ob/Obca, Obca, Str, Org

Kantate zum 5. Sonntag nach Trinitatis. Soli SATB, Coro SATB, 2 Cor, 2 Obda, Taille (Eh), Str, Org - Tonart D-Dur / h-Moll

In the cantata Was soll ich aus dir machen, Ephraim? written for the 22nd Sunday after Trinity in 1723, the biblical dictum that opens the cantata is not performed by the choir but by the solo bass. B...

The cantata Es reißet euch ein schrecklich Ende BWV 90, composed for the 25th Sunday after Trinity in 1723, is, like some of the cantatas performed on previous Sundays, more of a chamber music piece....

Kantate zum Sonntag Septuagesimae. Soli SATB, Coro SATB, 2 Obda,2 Vl, Va, Bc, Org

Kantate zum 9. Sonntag nach Trinitatis. Soli SATB, Coro SATB, Fl, 2 Ob/2 Obda, Str, Org

The opening chorus of the cantata Christus, der ist mein Leben BWV 95, composed for the 16th Sunday after Trinity in 1723, is unique in Bach's oeuvre, with two different chorales interrupted by a teno...

Kantate zum 18. Sonntag nach Trinitatis. Soli SATB, Coro SATB, [Cto, Trb], Blfl f2, Fl, 2 Ob, (Vl pic), Str, Org

The hymn "Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan" is used three times as the opening movement of a Bach cantata: BWV 98-100. While BWV 99 and 100 are choral cantatas, the cantata for the 21st Sunday after Tr...

Kantate zum 15. Sonntag nach Trinitatis. Soli SATB, Coro SATB, [Cto], Fl, Obda, Str, Org

Bestimmung unbekannt. Soli SATB, Coro SATB, 2 Cor (2 Tr), Timp, Fl, Obda, Str, Org

Kantate zum 10. Sonntag nach Trinitatis. Soli SATB, Coro SATB, [Cto, 3 Trb], Fl, 2 Ob, Obca (Tl), Vl solo, Str, Org

The cantata "Ihr werdet weinen und heulen" BWV 103 for Sunday Jubilate is one of the cantatas based on texts by the Leipzig poet Christiane Mariane von Ziegler, with which Bach concluded his second Le...

The shepherd music so popular in the Baroque period characterizes the cantata Du Hirte Israel, höre BWV 104: two oboes, waist, triplets, dots and organ dots in the opening chorus, oboes d'amore in the...

During Bach's first months in Leipzig, he composed the cantata "Herr, gehe nicht ins Gericht mit deinem Knecht" BWV 105 for the 9th Sunday after Trinity (25.7.1723). The opening chorus, based on two m...

Kantate zum 7. Sonntag nach Trinitatis. Soli STB, Coro SATB, [Corca], 2 Fl, 2 Obda, Vl solo, Str, Org

The cantata "Es ist euch gut, dass ich hingehe" BWV 108 for Sunday Cantate is one of the cantatas based on texts by the Leipzig poet Christiane Mariane von Ziegler, with which Bach concluded his secon...