Es lebe der König, der Vater im Lande (Long live the King, the father of the country), BWV Anh.

The work was composed in Leipzig for the name day of the Elector of Saxony, and first performed on 3 August 1732.

[1] Picander's text was published in Ernst-Schertzhaffte und Satyrische Gedichte, Teil IV (Leipzig, 1737).

[2] The first movement was likely used as a model for the opening chorus of Preise dein Glücke, gesegnetes Sachsen, BWV 215, a work that Bach composed at short notice in 1734.

[3] BWV 215 is scored for double choir and festive orchestra with trumpets and timpani.