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
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
Gott ist mein König, BWV 71
…speculated that the text was written by Georg Christian Eilmar, minister of Marienkirche, who had earlier prompted the composition of Bach's cantata Aus der Tiefen rufe ich, Herr, zu dir, BWV 131. It has also been thought that Bach himself may have assembled the text, although the suggestion is unlikely since Bach's musical setting of the final…
The Marienkirche, Mühlhausen, whose minister commissioned the cantata