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Church cantata

A church cantata or sacred cantata is a cantata intended to be performed during Christian liturgy. The genre was particularly popular in 18th-century Lutheran Germany, with many composers writing an

See also#

*List of church cantatas by liturgical occasion

  • Musique vocale sacrée section at Georg Philip Telemann (1681–1767) Catalogue TWV ()
  • “Übersicht über die Bestimmung der Kantaten”, Appendix 2, pp. 482–483 in Alfred Dürr, Yoshitake Kobayashi (eds.), Kirsten Beißwenger. Bach Werke Verzeichnis: Kleine Ausgabe, nach der von Wolfgang Schmieder vorgelegten 2. Ausgabe. Preface in English and German. Wiesbaden: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1998. –
  • The Sources of Bach’s works: Liturgical/secular designation of vocal works at
Genre family
Choral music genres, Classical church music