• Johann Sebastian Bach's chorale cantata cycle is the year-cycle of church cantatas he started composing in Leipzig from the first Sunday after Trinity...
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  • A chorale cantata is a church cantata based on a chorale—in this context a Lutheran chorale. It is principally from the German Baroque era. The organizing...
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  • Trinity Sunday 4 June 1724, and form the backbone of his chorale cantata cycle. The eldest known cantata by Bach, an early version of Christ lag in Todes Banden...
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  • of this cycle are chorale cantatas, thus this cycle is also known as the chorale cantata cycle (at least the first 40 cantatas of the cycle are known...
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    Hymns were mostly set to their Lutheran chorale tune. His chorale cantata cycle contains at least 40 chorale cantatas, each of these entirely based on text...
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    Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, BWV 1 (category Chorale cantatas)
    arias. Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern is the last chorale cantata of Bach's second cantata cycle, possibly because the librettist who provided the paraphrases...
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    Nun danket alle Gott, BWV 192 (category Chorale cantatas)
    also been regarded as a cantata for Reformation Day. The cantata is not always seen as included in Bach's chorale cantata cycle. The original score is...
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    Meine Seel erhebt den Herren, BWV 10 (category Chorale cantatas)
    second cantata cycle with forty chorale cantatas composed to new librettos. Each of these librettos was based on the text of a known chorale, usually...
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    Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin, BWV 125 (category Chorale cantatas)
    funeral cantata Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit, BWV 106, and in cantatas of his first Leipzig cycle. In the format of the chorale cantata cycle, an unknown...
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    composed church cantatas were no longer in the chorale cantata format, while on the other hand he added chorale cantatas to the cycle which were composed...
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    Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir, BWV 130 (category Chorale cantatas)
    The cantata was performed on that feast day in 1724. Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir belongs to Bach's chorale cantata cycle, the second cycle during...
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    Es ist das Heil uns kommen her, BWV 9 (category Chorale cantatas)
    cantata cycle written for performances in Leipzig from 1724. The cantata is structured in seven movements, framed as the earlier chorale cantatas by a chorale...
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    Ach Gott, vom Himmel sieh darein, BWV 2 (category Chorale cantatas)
    performed on 18 June in Leipzig, it is the second cantata of his chorale cantata cycle. The church cantata is based on Martin Luther's 1524 hymn "Ach Gott...
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    Das neugeborne Kindelein, BWV 122 (category Chorale cantatas)
    by Cyriakus Schneegaß. The work is part of Bach's chorale cantata cycle; in the format of this cycle, the text of the first and last stanzas of the hymn...
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    Christ unser Herr zum Jordan kam, BWV 7 (category Chorale cantatas)
    third cantata Bach composed for his chorale cantata cycle, the second cantata cycle he started after being appointed Thomaskantor in 1723. The cantata is...
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    Ich hab in Gottes Herz und Sinn, BWV 92 (category Chorale cantatas)
    longer cantatas in terms of structure, text and music. Ich hab in Gottes Herz und Sinn belongs to Bach's chorale cantata cycle, the second cycle during...
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    November 1731. Bach composed this cantata to complete his second annual cycle of chorale cantatas, begun in 1724. The cantata is based on the hymn in three...
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    Wo soll ich fliehen hin, BWV 5 (category Chorale cantatas)
    continuo. Bach wrote the cantata in his second year in Leipzig for the 19th Sunday after Trinity. It is part of his chorale cantata cycle. The prescribed readings...
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    Meinen Jesum laß ich nicht, BWV 124 (category Church cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach)
    The cantata is part of Bach's chorale cantata cycle, the second cycle during his tenure as Thomaskantor that began in 1723. In the style of the cycle, an...
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    Ach Gott, wie manches Herzeleid, BWV 3 (category Church cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach)
    Moller in 1587. Bach composed the cantata in his second year as Thomaskantor in Leipzig as part of his chorale cantata cycle, for the Second Sunday after Epiphany...
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    Ach Herr, mich armen Sünder, BWV 135 (category Church cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach)
    fourth chorale cantata from his second annual cycle, and is based on the hymn by Cyriakus Schneegass. In the format of Bach's chorale cantata cycle, the...
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    cantata every week in his first cantata cycle. The following year, he followed the format, now basing each cantata on a Lutheran hymn in the chorale cantata...
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    Jesu, der du meine Seele, BWV 78 (category Chorale cantatas)
    Sunday's readings. Jesu, der du meine Seele belongs to Bach's chorale cantata cycle, the second cycle during his tenure as Thomaskantor that began in 1723. The...
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    Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 62 (category Chorale cantatas)
    cantata is part of Bach's chorale cantata cycle, the second cycle during his tenure as Thomaskantor that began in 1723. In the format of this cycle,...
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    "Herr Jesu Christ, wahr Mensch und Gott". In the format of the chorale cantata cycle, an unknown librettist retained the outer stanzas unchanged, but...
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    Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ, BWV 91 (category Chorale cantatas)
    The cantata belongs to Bach's chorale cantata cycle, the second cantata cycle during his tenure as Thomaskantor that began in 1723. The cantata text...
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    May 1725 Johann Sebastian Bach had presented the last cantata of his second cantata cycle, the cycle which coincided with his second year in Leipzig. As...
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    Was frag ich nach der Welt, BWV 94 (category Church cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach)
    work is a chorale cantata, like most of the second cycle, and the work thus also belongs to another cycle, the chorale cantata cycle. The cantata is based...
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    Ich freue mich in dir, BWV 133 (category Chorale cantatas)
    hymn of the same name by Caspar Ziegler. The cantata is part of Bach's chorale cantata cycle, the second cycle during his tenure as Thomaskantor that began...
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  • Wär Gott nicht mit uns diese Zeit, BWV 14 (category Chorale cantatas)
    help and is lost without it. Bach composed the cantata as a late addition to his chorale cantata cycle of 1724/25. In 1725, Easter had been early and...
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