Scoring: Soli SATB, Coro SATB, Blfl, 3 Ob (Ob I auch Obda, Obca), Fg, 3 Tr, Timp, 2 Vl, Va, Bc

Bach’s Cantata BWV 69a of 1723, which has remained largely unknown to the present day, is now available for the first time in a practical edition with this Carus publication. It has been unjustly neglected as it was overshadowed by the Cantata BWV 69 of the same name, a piece which Bach reworked to celebrate the inauguration of Leipzig Town Council in 1748. On that occasion Bach re-used the parts fr...