Ehre sei dir, Gott, gesungen, BWV 248 V
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Ehre sei dir, Gott, gesungen (Let honour be sung to You, O God),[1] BWV 248V (also written as BWV 248 V), is a church cantata for the second Sunday after Christmas, which Johann Sebastian Bach composed as the fifth part of his Christmas Oratorio, written for the Christmas season of 1734–35 in Leipzig.[2] The Christmas cantata was first performed on 2 January 1735.[2][3] Bach was then Thomaskantor, responsible for music at four churches in Leipzig, a position he had assumed in 1723.