... transforming this perfect God from one who is simply feared, to one who is revered and adored in the hearts of men. The first written of the two cantatas, "Gottes Zeit ist allerbeste Zeit" (BWV 106), was most likely written by Bach in August of 1707 in Mühlhausen, during his earliest years of composition. It is different from his later cantatas in that it does not contain recitative or separate da capo arias for he had not yet been influenced by the popular Italian style. Instead, it was influenced solely by German hymns. Furthermore, each section of the cantata flows right into the next instead of having separate movements of sorts, which is more suitable for the occasion, for it is widely assumed that it was written for a funeral, presumably that of his uncle, Tobias Lämmerhirt. Since it was written for a funeral and is one of his earlier ...

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