page_title: Church cantatas of Bach's third to fifth year in Leipzig
section_title: Other cantatas between Council Election 1725 and Purification 1726
hierarchical_section_title: Church cantatas of Bach's third to fifth year in Leipzig / Librettos / Other cantatas between Council Election 1725 and Purification 1726
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Herzog Ernst Ludwig I. von Sachsen-Meiningen (1672-1724)
context_page_description: On Trinity Sunday 27 May 1725 Johann Sebastian Bach had presented the last cantata of his second cantata cycle, the cycle which coincided with his second year in Leipzig. As director musices of the principal churches in Leipzig he presented a variety of cantatas over the next three years. New cantatas for occasions of the liturgical year composed in this period, except for a few in the chorale cantata format, are known as Bach's third cantata cycle. His next cycle of church cantatas, the Picander cycle, did not start before St. John's Day 24 June 1728.
  Sacred music of this period by Bach which doesn't belong to a cantata cycle includes council election cantatas, Passion music for Good Friday, and music for weddings and funerals.
context_section_description: Trinity XVII may have seen the performance of another cantata on a libretto by Franck:
  Trinity XVII, 23 September 1725: Seht, so ist die falsche Welt
  From Council Election to the Christmas season of 1725 there is only one further cantata extant:
  Reformation Day, 31 October 1725: Gott der Herr ist Sonn und Schild, BWV 79 – librettist unknown
  The cantata for the Sunday between Christmas 1725 and New Year 1726 has a libretto drawn from Erdman Neumeister's fourth cycle:
  Christmas I, 30 December 1725: Gottlob! nun geht das Jahr zu Ende, BWV 28
  The cantata for the third Sunday after Epiphany 1726 has a libretto from Salomon Franck's Evangelisches Andachts=Opffer:
  Epiphany III, 27 January 1726: Alles nur nach Gottes Willen, BWV 72
caption: Ernst Ludwig I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, c.1710
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