Aus der Tiefen rufe ich, Herr, zu dir, BWV 131, is a church cantata by the German composer Johann Sebastian Bach. It was composed in either 1707 or 1708, which makes it one of Bach's earliest cantatas
The Marienkirche, Mühlhausen, whose minister commissioned the cantata
Portrait of the young Bach (disputed)
Gott ist mein König, BWV 71
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Gott ist mein König, BWV 71, is a cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach written in Mühlhausen when the composer was 22 years old. Unusually for an early cantata by Bach, the date of first performance is kn
Aus der Tiefen rufe ich, Herr, zu dir, BWV 131
…ceremonies were held. One service there which Bach would have attended was that for the city council's inauguration in 1708 during which his cantata Gott ist mein Konig, BWV 71 had its premiere. He may have had a closer personal relationship with Eilmar than with the minister of his own church. Eilmar was godfather to his…
Title page of the first edition, Bach's only cantata with an extant print
The organ in the Marienkirche, Mühlhausen
John Eliot Gardiner, who conducted the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage, in 2007