Ratswechsel 1742
Friday 29 August 2025

This day offers you the fourth Leipzig Ratswechsel cantata, this one for the occasion in 1742. Gott, man lobet dich in der Stille, BWV 120, has parts which appeared in a wedding cantata (BWV 120a) and a cantata (BWV 120b) commemorating the Augsburg Confession in 1730. Bach also reworked the choral second movement for the Symbolum Nicenum of his Mass in B minor (BWV 232).

Music for today

• Gott, man lobet dich in der Stille, BWV 120
  (first performance 29 August 1742, Leipzig period)