Most notably their collaboration was on religious works in a Lutheran tradition such as the St Matthew Passion (BWV 244).
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However, they also produced secular works such as the Coffee Cantata (Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht, BWV 211).
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An example is the funeral ode Klagt, Kinder, klagt es aller Welt, BWV 244a, although in this case there are clues as to what music Bach would have used to set the words.
However, there has been speculation that Picander based his text on the work of Christian Friedrich Hunold, an earlier librettist of Bach.