Gott, man lobet dich in der Stille (God, You are praised in the stillness), BWV 120 , 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 in 1742.
 Parts of the cantata appeared in a wedding cantata (BWV 120a ) and a cantata (BWV 120b ) commemorating the Augsburg Confession in 1730.
 Bach reworked the choral second movement for the "Symbolum Nicenum" of his Mass in B minor.
Carl Heinrich Maria Orff (] ; (1895--)10 1895 – (1982--)29 1982 ) was a German composer, best known for his cantata "Carmina Burana" (1937).
 In addition to his career as a composer, Orff developed an influential approach toward music education for children.
Johann Abraham Peter Schulz (31 March 1747, Lüneburg – 10 June 1800,Schwedt) was a German musician.
 He is best known as the composer of the melody for Matthias Claudius's poem "Der Mond ist aufgegangen" and the Christmas carol "Ihr Kinderlein kommet".
"Der Mond ist aufgegangen" (German for "The moon has risen") is a German lullaby and evening song by Matthias Claudius, one of the most popular in German literature.
 Also known under the name Abendlied (German for "evening song") it was first released in "Musen-Almanach" in 1779, published by Johann Heinrich Voß.
 The poem "" (German for "Now all forests rest") by Paul Gerhardt from 1647 was its model.
 The exact dating is unclear; some believe that it was written in 1778 in Hamburg-Wandsbek, others that it originated earlier in Darmstadt.
Heino Gaze (20 February 1908 – 24 October 1967) was German composer.
 In Germany he is best known as the composer of "La Le Lu (nur der Mann im Mond schaut zu)" sung by Heinz Rühmann in the film Wenn der Vater mit dem Sohne.
 Probably most famous in America is his song "Kalkutta liegt am Ganges" which became a hit performed by Lawrence Welk under the title "Calcutta".
 He worked on more than thirty film scores during his career.
Gott, man lobet dich in der Stille (God, you are praised in the stillness), BWV 120b, is a cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach.
 He composed it in 1730 to commemorate the Augsburg Confession.
"Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland " (original: "Nu kom der Heyden heyland ", English: "Now come, Saviour of the heathens") is a Lutheran chorale of 1524 with words written by Martin Luther, based on "Veni redemptor gentium " by Ambrose.
 It was printed in the Erfurt "Enchiridion" of 1524.
 The chorale was used as the prominent hymn for the first Sunday of Advent for centuries.
 It was used widely in organ settings by Protestant baroque composers, most notably Johann Sebastian Bach: he set it as the opening chorale prelude BWV 599 of Orgelbüchlein; and three times—as BWV 659 (one of his best known organ compositions), BWV 660 and BWV 661—in his Great Eighteen Chorale Preludes.
 Bach used the hymn in his chorale cantata "Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland", BWV 62 (1724) and in the opening chorale fantasia of his earlier cantata "Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland", BWV 61 , BWV 61 (1714).
 Max Reger composed a chorale prelude as No. 29 of his 52 Chorale Preludes, Op. 67 in 1902.
There are 52 chorale cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach surviving in at least one complete version.
 Around 40 of these were composed during his second year as Thomaskantor in Leipzig, which started after Trinity Sunday 4 June 1724, and form the backbone of his chorale cantata cycle.
 The eldest known cantata by Bach, an early version of "Christ lag in Todes Banden", BWV 4, presumably written in 1707, was a chorale cantata.
 The last chorale cantata he wrote in his second year in Leipzig was "Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern", BWV 1, first performed on Palm Sunday, 25 March 1725.
 In the ten years after that he wrote at least a dozen further chorale cantatas and other cantatas that were added to his chorale cantata cycle.
The Festgesang (Gutenberg cantata), also known as "Festgesang zur Eröffnung der am ersten Tage der vierten Säkularfeier der Erfindung der Buchdruckerkunst", was composed by Felix Mendelssohn in the first half of 1840 for performance in Leipzig at the celebrations to mark the putative quatercentenary of the invention of printing with movable type by Johannes Gutenberg.
 It was first performed in the market-square at Leipzig on 24 June 1840.
Der Mond ("The Moon") is an opera in one act by Carl Orff based on a Grimm's fairy tale) with a libretto by the composer.
 It was first performed on 5 February 1939 by the Bavarian State Opera in Munich under the direction of Clemens Krauss.
 The composer describes it not as an opera but as "Ein kleines Welttheater" ("A little world theatre"); the performance lasts for about one hour and is often paired with Orff's "Die Kluge".

Question: Der Mond was composed by the man who was best known for what cantata?
Answer: Carmina Burana