Bach cantata her company in staged productions, "The Peasant Cantata" and "The Coffee Cantata". In 1931 a recording was made of a performance of , in Barcelona. The number of performances and recordings increased in the decades after the Second World War. In the early 1950s Fritz Lehmann recorded several cantatas with the Berliner Motettenchor and the Berlin Philharmonic. From 1953, Max Thurn conducted for the broadcaster NDR a series of Bach cantatas, with members of the NDR Chor and members of the NDR Sinfonieorchester. Karl Richter called his choir programmatically Münchener Bach-Chor in 1954 and recorded about a third of the
Bach cantata in 1707 when he was 22 to take up an appointment as organist of St. Blasius church (). There is evidence suggesting that he composed a cantata as an audition piece for Mühlhausen, and this may have been . One or two more surviving cantatas may have been composed while Bach was at his previous post in Arnstadt, for example, . A couple of the surviving cantatas can be firmly dated to his time in Mühlhausen. For example, , was composed for the inauguration of the town council in 1708. By Bach's own account was also composed at Mühlhausen. Other