Bach's first cantata cycle

Bach's first cantata cycle refers to the church cantatas Johann Sebastian Bach composed for the somewhat less than 60 occasions of the liturgical year of his first year as Thomaskantor in Leipzig which required concerted music. That year ran from the first Sunday after Trinity in 1723 to Trinity Sunday of the next year:^[1]

^ Dürr, Alfred; Jones, Richard D. P. (6 July 2006). "Introduction". The Cantatas of J. S. Bach: With Their Librettos in German-English Parallel Text. OUP Oxford. pp. 22–29. ISBN 978-0-19-929776-4.

[Dürr/Jones2006-1] Dürr, Alfred; Jones, Richard D. P. (6 July 2006). "Introduction". The Cantatas of J. S. Bach: With Their Librettos in German-English Parallel Text. OUP Oxford. pp. 22–29. ISBN 978-0-19-929776-4.

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