God, give your judgment to the king

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Bach cantata
God, give your judgment to the king
BWV: Appendix 3
Occasion: Change of Council
Year of origin: 1730
Place of origin: Leipzig
Genus: cantata
text
Christian Friedrich Henrici
List of Bach cantatas

God, give your dishes to the king ( BWV Appendix 3) is a lost sacred cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach , which he premiered in Leipzig in 1732 when the council changed .

Five of the cantatas for the change of council that Bach wrote in Leipzig have been preserved. This event usually took place annually in the Nikolaikirche . On this festive occasion, Bach would probably have added trumpets to the orchestra for this lost cantata .

text

The text was written by Christian Friedrich Henrici (also known as Picander ), who took it from the Book of Psalms .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Cantata BWV Anh 3 . Retrieved June 25, 2013.