The Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248, is an oratorio by Johann Sebastian Bach intended for performance in church during the Christmas season. It is in six parts, each part a cantata intended for performanc
First page of the manuscript of the score
First two pages of the libretto of Bach's Christmas Oratorio, as printed in 1734.
Sie werden aus Saba alle kommen, BWV 65, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed it in 1724 in Leipzig for Epiphany and first performed it on 6 January 1724 as part of his first cant
Michael Angelo Immenraet: Adoration of the Magi at Unionskirche, Idstein, from the 1670s
First print of "Puer natus in Bethlehem – Ein Kind geborn zu Bethlehem", published by Lucas Lossius [de] in Nürnberg in 1553