Gott fähret auf mit Jauchzen, BWV 43, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed it in Leipzig for the Feast of the Ascension, and led the first performance on 30 May 1726. The work is
Duke Ernst Ludwig
Urban Gottfried Sieber, a pastor in Leipzig
First page from a 1726 (second edition) print of the libretto from Rudolstadt
On Trinity Sunday 27 May 1725 Johann Sebastian Bach had presented the last cantata of his second cantata cycle, the cycle which coincided with his second year in Leipzig. As director musices of the pr
Bach's autograph of the start (sinfonia) of Brich dem Hungrigen dein Brot, BWV 39, the cantata for the first Sunday after Trinity in 1726, which is the first cantata of his fourth year in Leipzig, composed halfway through his third cycle
Johann Sebastian Bach
Johannes Agricola
Erdmann Neumeister