Johann Sebastian Bach Sheet Music for Mixed Choir

Bach composed BWV 153 as the fourth cantata in the second Leipzig cantata cycle, the so-called "choral cantata cycle". The hymn "Ach Herr, mich armen Sünder", written in the 16th century to the melody...

The three-verse hymn "Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme" was written by Philipp Nicolai and first appears in his "Freudenspiegel des ewigen Lebens". The poet of the other text sections of the cantata is...

New edition of the New Year's cantata, previously only published from 19th century copies, based on a manuscript from 1762 which only became known in 1971; with a considerably different and improved t...

A motetic choral movement without obbligato instruments opens the cantata Nimm, was dein ist, und gehe hin zum Sonntag Septuagesima 1724. This is followed by an almost dance-like, song-like aria "Murr...

The sources show that Bach's cantata was intended for the Sunday of Jubilate. The text, whose composer is still unknown today, is based on the juxtaposition of sadness and joy in the Gospel for this S...

The cantata "Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben" BWV 147 for the Feast of the Visitation of Mary (2 July) in 1723 belongs to a group of three Weimar Advent cantatas which Bach reinterpreted textually in...

The cantata "Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben" BWV 147 for the Feast of the Visitation of Mary (2 July) 1723 belongs to a group of three Weimar Advent cantatas which Bach reinterpreted textually by add...

The cantata Bring Glory to the Lord in His Name BWV 148 was probably composed for the 17th Sunday after Trinity in 1723; due to the scanty tradition, which only began after Bach's death, the cantata c...

When composing the cantata BWV 149, Bach drew on parts of an older work: the opening chorus is a parody of the hunting cantata BWV 208. In addition to minor changes to the text, he used trumpets inste...

The cantata "Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich" BWV 150 is one of Bach's earliest cantatas from his Mühlhausen period. For a long time, its authenticity was disputed, a fact which was not only due to the...

Bach's cantata BWV 151, whose wonderfully intimate opening aria is rightly considered one of Bach's "happiest inspirations" (Alfred Dürr), was composed for Christmas Day 1725. The flute and oboe d'amo...

Reconstruction of the original version (Klaus Hofmann); composition period unknown

The text of the cantata "Seht, wir gehen hinauf gen Jerusalem" was probably first performed in 1729; this would make it the last cantata that Bach performed before the St. Matthew Passion was performe...

The cantata was probably first performed on September 27, 1716, the 16th Sunday after Trinity Sunday, in Weimar's Schlosskirche. The text comes from the cantata volume "Evangelisches Andachts-Opffer"...

Kantate zu Neujahr; am Fest der Beschneidung Christi. Soli SATB, Coro SATB, 3 Tr, Timp, 2 Ob, Vl solo, Str, Org

The Whitsun cantata Erschallet ihr Lieder was composed for the first Whitsun holiday in 1714 and was performed several times in Leipzig in slightly different versions. Performances in 1724 and 1731 ar...

The cantata "Erhöhtes Fleisch und Blut" was composed as a parody of a secular cantata, presumably for Pentecost 1727. Despite the changes to the text, Bach made few changes to the musical structure, b...

Kantate zu Trinitatis. Soli SAB, Coro SATB, 2 Ob, Obca, Str, Org - Tonart c-dorisch

Kantate zum 8. Sonntag nach Trinitatis. Soli ATB, Coro SATB, [Cto], 2 Ob/2 Obda, Str, Org

The cantata Siehe zu, dass deine Gottesfurcht nicht Heuchelei sei BWV 179 opens with a motet-like choral movement in the stile antico without obbligato instruments. This is initially a counter-fugue:...

Kantate zum 20. Sonntag nach Trinitatis. Soli SATB, Coro SATB, 2 Blfl f1, Fl, Ob, Obca, Vc pic, Str, Org

The Whitsun cantata "Erwünschtes Freudenlicht" BWV 184 is based on a Köthen composition, presumably a congratulatory cantata, whose instrumental parts (the only surviving ones) Bach continued to use i...

A (rare) autograph date (14.7.1715) confirms that the cantata Barmherziges Herze der ewigen Liebe was intended for the 4th Sunday after Trinitatis 1715. Like many Weimar cantatas, it is a decidedly ch...

Bach was not able to use the Weimar Advent cantata 'Ärgre dich, o Seele, nicht' BWV 186a in Leipzig, as there was no performance of church music there between the 1st Sunday of Advent and Christmas. B...

Bach's first Leipzig New Year's cantata has only survived in fragments. Neither the autograph score nor the vocal score of the original source material have survived in full. This applies in particula...