In March 1725, Johann Sebastian Bach abruptly changed his successful series of choral cantatas. Presumably the unknown librettist had died and Bach had to fall back on another source. Unusually for the time, he used the texts of a female writer: Christiana Mariana von Ziegler (1695-1760). She founded one of the first literary-musical salons in Leipzig. Bach used Ziegler's texts for a further nine cantatas from 1725, but these did not use a chorale as a basis, but a Bible verse, which is then poetically developed with many elaborate references. Christoph Spering presents three of these Ziegler cantatas.
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