(Let, Princess, let still one more glance) for soprano, alto, tenor and bass, vocal ensemble, transverse flute I+II, oboe d’amore I+II, viola da gamba I+II, liuto I+II, strings and basso continuo

The performance of the funeral ode “Let, Princess, let still one more glance” BWV 198 on 18 October 1727 in Leipzig’s university church, the “Paulinerkirche”, numbers among the most prominent social successes of Bach’s career. As noted in a newspaper of the time, the event was distinguished by “the attendance of princely and comital personages, high ministers, cavaliers and other foreigners … in addition to a great number of elegant ladies”, who had come to pay their respects to queen Christiane Eberhardine, who had died on 4 September.