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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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)" |