Ehre sei dir, Gott, gesungen, BWV 248 V


Ehre sei dir, Gott, gesungen, BWV 248V, is a church cantata for the second Sunday after Christmas, which Johann Sebastian Bach composed as the fifth part of his Christmas Oratorio, written for the Christmas season of 1734–35 in Leipzig. The cantata was first performed on.

History

had been presenting church cantatas for the Christmas season in the Thomaskirche and Nikolaikirche since his appointment as director musices in Leipzig in 1723, including these cantatas for the second Sunday after Christmas:
is scored for 2 oboes d'amore, 2 violin parts, 1 viola part and continuo.