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]
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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