About a beautiful coral and its composer, but also about disasters while travelling, highwaymen, storms at sea, war, a wandering student and... long footnotes.

No other chorale appears as often in Bach's cantatas as „Wer nur den lieben Gott lässt walten“. It also crops up in the cantatas performed in our next programme. In this podcast , Koen Uvin reveals the surprising history of this chorale and its composer.

 

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