Bach composed the cantata in Leipzig for the first Sunday after Easter, called Quasimodogeniti. He composed it in his second annual cycle, which consisted of chorale cantatas since the first Sunday after Trinity of 1724. Bach ended the sequence on Palm Sunday of 1725, this cantata is not a chorale cantata and the only cantata in the second cycle to begin with an extended sinfonia.
| Original Name | Am Abend aber desselbigen Sabbats |
| Librettist | John 20: 19 Jakob Fabricius (1593-1654) (No.4) Martin Luther (1483-1546) (No.7) |
| Date of composition | 1725 in Leipzig, Germany |
| Premiered | 1725, April 8th in Leipzig, Germany |
| First published | 1860 (BGA) |
| Dedicated to | 1st Sunday after Easter (Quasimodogeniti) |
| Type | Sacred Cantata |
| Tonality | D Major |
| Catalogue | BWV 42 |
| Spoken language | German |
| Instruments |
4x
Voice
SATB Orchestra |
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| Autotranslations beta |
Jean-Sébastien Bach: But in the evening of the same Sabbath en ré majeur, BWV 42 Johann Sebastian Bach: But in the evening of the same Sabbath in re maggiore, BWV 42 Johann Sebastian Bach: But in the evening of the same Sabbath D-dur, BWV 42 |