This cantata's libretto was written by Christian Friedrich Henrici, known as Picander, and was written for performance on 30 August 1742. On that day the Erbherr, Lehnherr and Gerichtsherr Carl Heinrich von Dieskau, Saxon-Crown-Princely Kammerherr to the Rittergut Kleinzschocher near Leipzig, celebrated his thirty-sixth birthday with a huge fireworks display and, as was customary, took homage from the peasants on the same occasion. It is thought that Picander asked Bach to set his poetry to music.

Librettist Christian Friedrich Henrici (1700–1764) (also as Picander)
Date of composition 1742
Premiered 1742, August 30th in Leipzig, Germany
First published 1881
Dedicated to In hommage of Carl Heinrich von Dieskau of Klein-Zschocher
Type Secular Cantata
Tonality A Major
Catalogue BWV 212
Spoken language German
Instruments 2x Voice
Orchestra
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Autotranslations beta Jean-Sébastien Bach: Mer hahn en neue Oberkeet en la majeur, BWV 212 "Bauernkantate (Peasant Cantata)"
Johann Sebastian Bach: Mer hahn en neue Oberkeet in la maggiore, BWV 212 "Bauernkantate (Peasant Cantata)"
Johann Sebastian Bach: Mer hahn en neue Oberkeet A-dur, BWV 212 "Bauernkantate (Peasant Cantata)"