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Title	Bist du bei mir
Category	Concert/wind/brass band
Subcategory	Chorales, ballads, lyrical music
Instrumentation	Ha (concert/wind band)
Publisher's article no.	20131073
Price	36.00 EUR (incl. 10 % Austrian VAT)
Composer	Bach, Johann Sebastian
Arranger	Hafner, Gerhard
Difficulty level	2
Duration	3:00
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Programme notes: The song "Bist du bei mir, geh' ich mit Freuden zum Sterben und zu meiner Ruh'" was composed by Johann Sebastian Bach for his second wife Anna Magdalena (1701-1760), who he married in 1721. He used the following text by an anonymous poet: Bist du bei mir, geh' ich mit Freuden zum Sterben und zu meiner Ruh'. Ach, wie vergnügt wär' so mein Ende, es drückten deine lieben schönen Hände mir die getreuen Augen zu! The unparalleled popularity of this song is propably due to the magnificient, sensitive melody that wonderfully fits the text, in which a loved one is told that even death is beautiful "as long as you are there with me". Bist du bei mir, geh ich mit Freuden (If you are with me, I go with joy) is an aria from Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel's opera Diomedes, which was first staged on 16 November 1718. The aria is best known as "Bist du bei mir", BWV 508, a version for voice and continuo found as No. 25 in the 1725 Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach. Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel's opera Diomedes was staged in Bayreuth in November 1718. There has been some speculation how one of its arias, "Bist du bei mir", came to be known in the household of the Bachs in mid-1730s Leipzig, when Anna Magdalena Bach, Johann Sebastian's wife, copied an arrangement of the aria in her second notebook. 21st-century scholarship has shown that, mainly in the period from the mid 1720s to the mid 1730s, at least several dozens, maybe even over a hundred, of compositions by Stölzel were adopted by Bach or his family members in their public and private music practices. Only indirect evidence has come to light how such music was transferred from Stölzel to the Bachs. Bach and Stölzel were in the same places at different times, and shared acquaintances, but whether they met in person can only be surmised. Quelle/Source: Wikipedia

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