"Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir" ("We thank you, God, we thank you") is the title of Cantata BWV 29 by Johann Sebastian Bach. Although the text of the cantata is addressed to God, this is not a Church Cantata (i.e. it was not written for a specific liturgical occasion), but it is a Sacred Cantata, composed for a religious ceremony that accompanied the establishment of the Leipzig City Council in 1731. The opening movement is extraordinarily wide and joyful! The score, in addition to the ar