34. The authorship of these Lieder is established in Gudrun Busch, C. Ph. E. Bach und seine Lieder (Regensburg: Gustav Bosse Verlag, 1957), 181–190. For an informative paragraph on these songs, see Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Musik und Literatur in Norddeutschland, Schriften der Schleswig-Holsteinischen Landesbibliothek, Band 4 (Heide in Holstein: Boyens & Co., 1988), 69. Further of interest in this regard, the Hamburgische unpartheische Correspondent for 26 February 1777 reported on the final concert of a “series organized for charity by the city’s four united Masonic lodges… . Non-Freemasons were also admitted to these concerts, in which Herr Kapellmeister Bach directed some excellent vocal works, chief among them his own Die Israeliten in der Wüste.” See Ottenberg, C. P. E. Bach, 123, n. 67. See also Miesner, Philipp Emanuel Bach in Hamburg, 20.