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.
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
Jauchzet, frohlocket! Auf, preiset die Tage, BWV 248I, is a 1734 Christmas cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach that serves as the first part of his Christmas Oratorio. Bach was then Thomaskantor, respons
Unser Mund sei voll Lachens, BWV 110
…trumpet is of martial character, and imitated by the voice. When the text refers to the strings, the winds rest. The aria is of similar character as "Großer Herr, o starker König" ('Mighty Lord and Great King') from Part I of Bach's 1734 Christmas Oratorio. The closing chorale "Alleluja! Gelobt sei Gott" ('Alleluia! Praise be…
First page of the manuscript of the score
Maria Josepha, the dedicatee of BWV 214, in a 1720 painting by Rosalba Carriera
Title page of the printed libretto
Baroque orchestra with timpani (kettledrums) and trumpets