A previously unknown work by JohannSebastian Bach has turned up in a crate of 18th-century birthday cards removed from a
German library shortly before it was devastated by fire last year,
researchers said.

Bach composed the work for a solo soprano, to be accompanied by strings
or a harpsichord, to mark the 52nd birthday of Duke Wilhelm Ernst of
Saxony-Weimar, whom Bach then served as court organist

The soprano was to sing a 12-stanza poem beginning with the duke's
motto "Everything with God and nothing without him" written by the
theologian Johann Anton Mylius.


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