Question: Who wrote the libretto in the work Stravinsky composed before The Cantata?
Sentence (from "Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147"): His cantata is part of his first cantata cycle there and was written for the Marian feast of the Visitation on 2 July, which commemorates Mary's visit to Elizabeth as narrated in the Gospel of Luke in the prescribed reading for the feast day.
Relevant evidence: No