Bach composed this cantata to celebrate the appointment of Gottlieb Kortte as professor of Roman Law at Leipzig University. The librettist of the work is unknown: it may have been Picander, who had been providing libretti for Bach from at least the previous year when they collaborated on another academic cantata Zerreißet, zersprenget, zertrümmert die Gruft, BWV 205.

Date of composition 1726
Premiered 1726, December 11th in Leipzig, Germany
Type Secular Cantata
Tonality D Major
Catalogue BWV 207
Instruments 4x Voice
Chorus/Choir
Orchestra
Links
Autotranslations beta Jean-Sébastien Bach: Vereinigte Zwietracht der wechselnden Saiten en ré majeur, BWV 207
Johann Sebastian Bach: Vereinigte Zwietracht der wechselnden Saiten in re maggiore, BWV 207
Johann Sebastian Bach: Vereinigte Zwietracht der wechselnden Saiten D-dur, BWV 207