Salomon Franck

Salomon (also Salomo) Franck, 6 March 1659  – 11 July 1725), was a German lawyer, scientist, and poet. Franck was working at Weimar at the same time as the composer Johann Sebastian Bach and he was the librettist of some of the best-known Bach cantatas.[1][2]

  1. ^ Day, J. C. J. (1960). "The texts of Bach's Church cantatas: some observations". German Life and Letters. 13 (2): 137–144. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0483.1960.tb01320.x.
  2. ^ Wolff, Christoph, ed. (2006). Die Welt der Bach-Kantaten (in German) (3 vols special ed.). Stuttgart, Kassel: Metzler, Bärenreiter. ISBN 3-476-02127-0.