Woman's Voice in Baroque Music: Mariane von Ziegler and J.S. Bach

At the end of his second year in Leipzig, J.S. Bach composed nine sacred cantatas to texts by Leipzig poet Mariane von Ziegler (1695-1760). Despite the fact that these cantatas are Bach''s only compositions to texts by a female poet, the works have been largely ignored in the Bach literature. Ziegler was Germany''s first female poet laureate, and the book highlights her significance in early eig...