Neue Zeitschrift für Musik
The Bach-Gesellschaft chose as first composition in the first volume of the Bach-Gesellschaft Ausgabe (BGA). Robert Schumann, the publisher of the "Neue Zeitschrift für Musik", Thomaskantor Moritz Hauptmann and philologist Otto Jahn had initiated this first complete edition of Bach's works a century after the composer's death. Its first volume was published in 1851, edited by Hauptmann. Leisinger mentioned three reasons why the 's choice to open their edition with this cantata made sense: