BWV 120

Werk BWV 120

Gott, man lobet dich in der Stille

Vocal Work Complete

About this Work

Gott, man lobet dich in der Stille (God, You are praised in the stillness),[1] BWV 120.1 (previously BWV 120),[2] 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 before 1730. Parts of the cantata appeared in a wedding cantata (BWV 120.2)[3] and a cantata commemorating the Augsburg Confession in 1730 (BWV 120.3).[4] Bach reworked the choral second movement for the Symbolum Nicenum of his Mass in B minor.

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