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
Title page of the first edition, Bach's only cantata with an extant print
The organ in the Marienkirche, Mühlhausen
Portrait of the young Bach (disputed)
John Eliot Gardiner, who conducted the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage, in 2007
Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich, BWV 150, is an early church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach composed for an unknown occasion. It is unique among Bach's cantatas in its sparse orchestration and in the
Gott ist mein König, BWV 71
…principal churches, Divi Blasii, dedicated to St Blaise, where he composed some of his earliest surviving cantatas. One or two early cantatas, for example Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich, BWV 150, may have been written at Arnstadt, his previous residence, for a performance at Mühlhausen. He composed Gott ist mein König for a church service that…
The Wender organ, which Bach inspected, in the Neue Kirche, Arnstadt, for which the cantata was probably composed