BWV 85
Werk BWV 85
Work BWV 85
Vocal Work
Complete
About this Work
Ich bin ein guter Hirt (I am a Good Shepherd),[1] BWV 85, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed it in Leipzig for the second Sunday after Easter and first performed it on 15 April 1725. He wrote the cantata in his second year of his tenure as Thomaskantor that began in 1723, but it is not a chorale cantata, and he later assigned it to his third cantata cycle.