Er rufet seinen Schafen mit Namen, BWV 175, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed the cantata in Leipzig for the third day of Pentecost and first performed it on 22 May 1725.
Christiana Mariana von Ziegler, author of the cantata text
The Good Shepherd, by Jean-Baptiste de Champaigne
Christiana Mariana von Ziegler was a German poet and writer. She is best known for the texts of nine cantatas, which Johann Sebastian Bach composed after Easter in 1725.
Er rufet seinen Schafen mit Namen, BWV 175
…on more varied texts, possibly because he lost his librettist. Nine of his cantatas for the period between Easter and Pentecost are based on texts of Christiana Mariana von Ziegler. Bach later assigned most of them, including this cantata, to his third annual cycle. The prescribed readings for the feast day were from the Acts of…
The Romanushaus, Brühl, Leipzig in 1704