Johann Sebastian Bach Mer hahn en neue Oberkeet (Peasant Cantata) BWV 212 Bärenreiter URTEXT Edited by Werner Neumann BA 10212 Score* EUR 14.95 String parts each EUR 4.50 Wind set EUR 4.95 Harpsichord EUR 9.95 Vocal score (Ger./Eng.) by Andreas Köhs BA 10212a* EUR 8.00

Secular Bach Cantata The Coffee Cantata and the Peasant Cantata both on librettos by Picander, are among the best-known and most frequently performed of Bach’s secular cantatas. The Peasant Cantata of 1742, Bach’s last datable cantata, is a musical description of folk life. It was composed as a tribute to Picander’s superior, Carl Heinrich von Dieskau, who had inherited the family estate in 1742. Both cantatas reveal Bach’s mastery in their unusual subject-matter, formal design, and musical workmanship. Now they appear in separate editions based on the »New Bach Edition« with straightforward and easy-to-play piano reductions by Andreas Köhs.