![]() The cantata is in seven movements which combine the three major text sources: psalm, hymn and contemporary poetry. The text assembly is similar to Bach's early cantatas. Bach's authorship has been doubted because the cantata has several unusual features one of these is the scoring, it is the only Bach cantata to combine three corni da caccia with timpani.Īn unknown librettist drew mainly from Psalm 146 and from Jakob Ebert's hymn " Du Friedefürst, Herr Jesu Christ" to develop seven movements, supplying only two of the movements himself. ![]() He appears to have composed the cantata for New Year's Day, probably when he was in his 20s, but whether it was first performed in Mühlhausen or Weimar is not known: the date of composition is unclear. Lobe den Herrn, meine Seele (Praise the Lord, my soul), BWV 143, is an early cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. ![]()
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