Overview
Freue dich, erlöste Schar, BWV 30.2, BWV 30, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. It is one of his later realisations in the genre: he composed it for the Feast of John the Baptist in 1738, and based its music largely on Angenehmes Wiederau, a secular cantata which he had composed a year earlier. Christian Friedrich Henrici (Picander), the librettist of the secular model of the cantata, is likely also the author of the sacred cantata's version of the text.
Libretto
Freue dich, erlöste Schar,
Freue dich in Sions Hütten!
Dein Gedeihen hat itzund
Einen rechten festen Grund,
Dich mit Wohl zu überschütten.
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