Perhaps the most frequently-performed of his symphonies are No. 4, for strings, and No. 6 ; probably his most widely-known work, through performances and recordings, is his Concerto funebre for violin and strings, composed at the beginning of World War II and making use of a Hussite chorale and a Russian revolutionary song of 1905.

The only other extant cantata for the Sunday is the chorale cantata Herr Christ, der einge Gottessohn, BWV 96, composed in 1724.

A week later, Bach composed the famous cantata for bass solo, Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen, BWV 56, also concluded by a chorale.

During the Baroque period in Europe, the chorale prelude ( for organ ) was widely used, generally composed by using a popular hymn tune thematically, and a wide corpus of other solo organ music began to develop across Europe.

Composers, including Martin Luther himself, both composed new tunes for the German chorale texts and adapted specific plainchant melodies.

Stylistically chorale motets were similar at first to motets composed in Catholic countries, and made use of the full range of techniques of Franco-Flemish polyphony.

The tune is based on a melody line from Johann Sebastian Bach's chorale from the St. Matthew Passion, itself a reworking of an earlier secular song, " Mein G ' müt ist mir verwirret ," composed by Hans Leo Hassler.

It begins with a woodwind chorale composed of piccolo, flute, oboe, E ♭ clarinet, B ♭ clarinet, E ♭ alto clarinet, B ♭ bass clarinet, bassoon, and alto saxophone with a canon theme exhibited several times between the saxophone and flute.

He composed the chorale cantata in Leipzig for the 27th Sunday after Trinity and first performed it on 25 November 1731.

He composed the chorale cantata in Leipzig for the second Sunday after Trinity and first performed it on 18 June 1724.

Bach composed the chorale cantata on Luther's chorale for Easter Sunday early in his career, between 1707 und 1713 based on the style of the composition.

The voice parts can be sung by soloists or a choir, as the work is a " Choralkonzert " ( chorale concerto ) in the style of the 17th century, whereas Bach composed recitatives and arias for church cantatas only later, starting in 1714.

He composed the chorale cantata in Leipzig for the 19th Sunday after Trinity and first performed it on 15 October 1724.

He composed the chorale cantata in Leipzig for the 16th Sunday after Trinity and first performed it on 24 September 1724.

He composed the chorale cantata in Leipzig for the sixth Sunday after Trinity between 1732 and 1735, based on the hymn Es ist das Heil uns kommen her by Paul Speratus.

Bach composed the chorale cantata in Leipzig for the Sixth Sunday after Trinity between 1732 and 1735.

In 1724, when he composed his second annual cycle of chorale cantatas, he was in Köthen that Sunday, therefore left the text for later completion.

Bach composed the chorale cantata in Leipzig for the feast of the Visitation and first performed it on 2 July 1724.

Bach composed the cantata for the Marian feast " Mariae Heimsuchung " ( Visitation ) in Leipzig as the fifth cantata of his second annual cycle of chorale cantatas and first performed it on 2 July 1724.

Johann Sebastian Bach composed two cantatas on O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort, BWV 60 using the first verse and BWV 20 based on the complete chorale.

Salieri and Mozart even composed a cantata for voice and piano together, called Per la ricuperata salute di Ophelia, which celebrated the return to stage of the singer Nancy Storace.

Schmidt's last work, the cantata " German Resurrection ," was composed to a Nazi text.

French Baroque composer Michel Pignolet de Montéclair composed " Pan et Syrinx ", a cantata for voice & ensemble ( No 4 of Second livre de cantates ).

When the Nazis placed Stravinsky's works on the list of " Entartete Musik ", he lodged a formal appeal to establish his Russian genealogy and declared, " I loathe all communism, Marxism, the execrable Soviet monster, and also all liberalism, democratism, atheism, etc .." Towards the end of his life, at Craft's behest, Stravinsky made a return visit to his native country and composed a cantata in Hebrew, travelling to Israel for its performance.

Ernst Krenek also composed two examples: a " scenic cantata ", Die Zwingburg, op.

Igor Stravinsky composed a work titled simply Cantata in 1951 – 52, which used stanzas from the 15th-century " Lyke-wake Dirge " as a narrative frame for other anonymous English lyrics, and later designated A Sermon, a Narrative, and a Prayer ( 1961 ) as " a cantata for alto and tenor soli, speaker, chorus, and orchestra ".

Still in 1871, Sullivan composed a dramatic cantata, On Shore and Sea, for the opening of the London International Exhibition and the hymn Onward, Christian Soldiers, with words by Sabine Baring-Gould.

During his residence in Berlin Bach composed a fine setting of the Magnificat ( 1749 ), in which he shows more traces than usual of his father's influence ; an Easter cantata ( 1756 ); several symphonies and concerted works ; at least three volumes of songs ; and a few secular cantatas and other occasional pieces.

Several competition entries, including a cantata and a hymn composed for the Paris Exhibition of 1867 were unsuccessful.

André Hodeir composed a jazz cantata on Anna Plurabelle ( 1966 ).

( Philologist and Rector of the Leipzig Thomasschule, Johann Matthias Gesner, for whom Bach composed a cantata in 1729, published a substantial Quintilian edition with a long footnote in Bach's honor.

During the 1930s, Finzi composed only a few works, but it was in these works, notably the cantata Dies natalis ( 1939 ) to texts by Traherne, that his fully mature style developed.

In 1829 in Bologna, Balfe composed his first cantata for the soprano Giulia Grisi, then 18 years old.

In 1851, in anticipation of the Great International Exhibition in London, Balfe composed an innovative cantata, Inno Delle Nazioni, sung by nine female singers, each representing a country.

The cantata Boyhood's End, composed for Britten and Pears, reflected a common interest in Purcell.

He occasionally composed, writing a cantata of farewell to London ( entitled, for which he also wrote the text ), and a few songs and arias, including one dedicated to Ferdinand VI.

* Mozart and Salieri are known to have composed together a cantata for voice and piano called Per la ricuperata salute di Ophelia which was celebrating the return to stage of the singer Nancy Storace, and which has been lost, although it had been printed by Artaria in 1785.

The project featured a cantata, ' Y Dyn Unig ' ( The Lonely Man ), composed by Andrew Powell, with libretto by Menna Elfyn, for tenor, harp, mixed choir, children's chorus and brass band.

Composer Edward Elgar composed a cantata titled The Black Knight.

* Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring, the title of the 10th movement of the cantata Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147 composed by Johann Sebastian Bach

Philologist and Rector of the Leipzig Thomasschule, Johann Matthias Gesner, for whom Bach composed a cantata in 1729, published a substantial Quintilian edition with a long footnote in Bach's honor.

He composed the solo cantata for alto in Leipzig for the sixth Sunday after Trinity and first performed it on 28 July 1726.

Bach composed the cantata in Leipzig for the Sixth Sunday after Trinity and first performed it on 28 July 1726.

He composed the solo cantata for alto in Weimar, probably for the seventh Sunday after Trinity and first performed it on 15 July 1714.

Alfred Dürr has reasons to believe that Bach composed the cantata in Weimar for the Seventh Sunday after Trinity of 1714.