This edition presents for the first time all the known motets by Johann Ludwig Bach (1677–1731), a cousin of Johann Sebastian who spent most of his professional career at the small court of Meiningen. Johann Ludwig is best known as a composer of cantatas, including some of the very earliest using modern "Neumeister-type" texts, eighteen of which Johann Sebastian Bach performed in Leipzig. The compositions, mostly for eight-part double chorus, are important examples of the early eighteenth-centu...