Ach Gott, vom Himmel sieh darein, BWV 2, is a chorale cantata composed by Johann Sebastian Bach for the second Sunday after Trinity in 1724. First performed on 18 June in Leipzig, it is the second can
The hymn in the Erfurt Enchiridion of 1524
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The cantatas composed by Johann Sebastian Bach, known as Bach cantatas, are a body of work consisting of over 200 surviving independent works, and at least several dozen that are considered lost. As f
Ach Gott, vom Himmel sieh darein, BWV 2
…The New Bach Edition (Neue Bach-Ausgabe, NBA) published the score in 1981, edited by George S. Bozarth, with the critical commentary published in 1984. Recordings of Bach's cantatas began in the first half of the 20th century. Several series of recordings, often for broadcasting, were made from 1950. Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Gustav…
Schlosskirche in Weimar (c. 1660, burned 1774) where Bach composed and performed church cantatas monthly from 1714 to 1717