Selig ist der Mann, BWV 57
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Selig ist der Mann (Blessed is the Man), BWV 57, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. It was written in Leipzig in 1725 for the Second Day of Christmas, which was celebrated that year as St. Stephen's Day, and first performed on 26 December 1725.Bach wrote the cantata in his third year in Leipzig for the Second Day of Christmas and first performed it on 26 December 1725. That year, as every other year in Leipzig, the day was the feast of the martyr St. Stephanus (Stephen). The prescribed readings for the day are Acts 6:8 7,22, Acts 7:51 59, the death of Stephen, and Matthew 23:34 39,…mehr

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Selig ist der Mann (Blessed is the Man), BWV 57, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. It was written in Leipzig in 1725 for the Second Day of Christmas, which was celebrated that year as St. Stephen's Day, and first performed on 26 December 1725.Bach wrote the cantata in his third year in Leipzig for the Second Day of Christmas and first performed it on 26 December 1725. That year, as every other year in Leipzig, the day was the feast of the martyr St. Stephanus (Stephen). The prescribed readings for the day are Acts 6:8 7,22, Acts 7:51 59, the death of Stephen, and Matthew 23:34 39, the Lament over Jerusalem. The cantata text was written by Georg Christian Lehms, who drew on all the readings and connected them to more biblical allusions. The first line is taken from James 1:12, the crown mentioned is in Greek "stephanos".