Herr Gott, dich loben wir, BWV 16, is a church cantata for New Year's Day by Johann Sebastian Bach. It was first performed on 1 January 1726 in Leipzig, as part of the composer's third cantata cycle.
Paul Eber, hymn writer
Unser Mund sei voll Lachens, BWV 110, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed the Christmas cantata in Leipzig for Christmas Day and first performed it on 25 December 1725.
Herr Gott, dich loben wir, BWV 16
…composer's third cantata cycle. Its libretto is by Georg Christian Lehms, as for three other of Bach's cantatas for the Christmas season that started with Unser Mund sei voll Lachens, BWV 110 on Christmas Day. He opened his text with the beginning of "Herr Gott, dich loben wir", Luther's German Te Deum, and continued with expressing thanks…
Page 5 from the cantata's autograph score, with the entrance of the voices in the middle section of the first movement
Johann Gottlob Carpzov, pastor in Leipzig
Natural trumpet
John Eliot Gardiner, who conducted the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage, in 2007