BWV 120

Werk BWV 120

Work BWV 120

Vocal Work Complete

About this Work

Gott, man lobet dich in der Stille (God, You are praised in the stillness),[1] BWV 120.1 (previously BWV 120),[2] is a sacred cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed it in Leipzig for the occasion of Ratswechsel, the inauguration of a new town council in a church service, probably before 1730. Parts of the cantata appeared in a wedding cantata (BWV 120.2)[3] and a cantata commemorating the Augsburg Confession in 1730 (BWV 120.3).[4] Bach reworked the choral second movement for the Symbolum Nicenum of his Mass in B minor.

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