Johann Sebastian Bach composed the church cantata Wer Dank opfert, der preiset mich, BWV 17 in Leipzig for the fourteenth Sunday after Trinity and first performed it on 22 September 1726.
Ernst Ludwig, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, probably the author of the text
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Wer Dank opfert, der preiset mich, BWV 17
…Trinity and first performed it on 22 September 1726. In his fourth year as Thomaskantor in Leipzig, Bach performed 18 cantatas composed by his relative Johann Ludwig Bach, a court musician in Meiningen. He then set some of the texts himself, including this cantata, written probably by Ernst Ludwig, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen…
Johann Ludwig Bach.