Bach wrote the cantata in his second year in Leipzig for the 19th Sunday after Trinity and first performed it on 15 October 1724. It is part of his second annual cycle of cantatas, a cycle of chorale cantatas. The prescribed readings for the Sunday were from Paul's Epistle to the Ephesians – "put on the new man, which after God is created" (Ephesians 4:22–28) – and from the Gospel of Matthew, Healing the paralytic at Capernaum (Matthew 9:1–8).
| Original Name | Wo soll ich fliehen hin |
| Librettist | Johann Heermann (1585–1647) (Nos.1, 7) Anonymous (Nos.2-6) |
| Date of composition | 1724 in Leipzig, Germany |
| Premiered | 1724, October 15th in Leipzig, Germany |
| First published | 1851 (BGA) |
| Dedicated to | 19th Sunday after Trinity |
| Type | Sacred Cantata |
| Tonality | G Minor |
| Catalogue | BWV 5 |
| Spoken language | German |
| Instruments |
4x
Voice
Chorus/Choir Orchestra |
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| Autotranslations beta |
Jean-Sébastien Bach: Where Shall I Flee en sol mineur, BWV 5 Johann Sebastian Bach: Where Shall I Flee in sol minore, BWV 5 Johann Sebastian Bach: Where Shall I Flee g-moll, BWV 5 |