Christiana Mariana von Ziegler

Christiana Mariana von Ziegler.

Christiana Mariana von Ziegler (1695–1760) was a German poet and writer. She is best known for the texts of nine cantatas, which Johann Sebastian Bach composed after Easter of 1725.^[1]

Biography

Ziegler was born in Leipzig. As a widow in the 1730s, Ziegler turned her family home into a literary and musical salon. Johann Christoph Gottsched encouraged her poetic activity. She became the first woman member of Gottsched's literary society, the Deutsche Gesellschaft. Johann Sebastian Bach set some of Ziegler's poetry to music, including his cantatas

• Ihr werdet weinen und heulen, BWV 103
• Auf Christi Himmelfahrt allein, BWV 128
• Sie werden euch in den Bann tun, BWV 183
• Er rufet seinen Schafen mit Namen, BWV 175

Bibliography

• Vermischte Schriften in gebundener und ungebunder Rede [Miscellaneous writings in verse and prose] (1739)

References

1. ^ Christiane Mariane von Ziegler (Librettist) - Short Biography

Further reading

• Bloomsbury Guide to Women's Literature

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Name	Ziegler, Christiana Mariana von
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Date of birth	1695
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Date of death	1760
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