The original cantata is unusual in being a secular work which was parodied as a sacred work and then, some five years later as a secular work. Bach's parodies are usually secular to sacred rather than sacred to secular. The explanation given for the prevalence of secular to sacred parodies is that occasional secular works such as birthday cantatas had a single use and then Bach was able to reuse them as sacred works.

Original Name Die Freude reget sich
Date of composition 1735 (incomplete)
Premiered 1735 in Leipzig, Germany
First published 1887 (BGA)
Type Secular Cantata
Tonality D Major
Catalogue BWV 36b
Spoken language Greek
Instruments 3x Voice
Chorus/Choir
Orchestra
Links
Autotranslations beta Jean-Sébastien Bach: Joy awakens en ré majeur, BWV 36b
Johann Sebastian Bach: Joy awakens in re maggiore, BWV 36b
Johann Sebastian Bach: Joy awakens D-dur, BWV 36b