Johann Sebastian Bach
Bist du bei mir
BWV508
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Bist du bei mir
BWV508
- Instrumentation Cello and Piano
- Composer Johann Sebastian Bach
- Editor Timothy Roberts
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- Edition Sheet Music Download
- Publisher Clifton Edition
- Order no. STAIN-C613-DL
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Description:
The beautiful aria 'Bist du bei mir' BWV 508, arranged for cello & piano. "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.
Bist du bei mir, geh ich mit Freuden zum Sterben und zu meiner Ruh. Ach, wie vergnügt wär so mein Ende, es drückten deine schönen Hände mir die getreuen Augen zu.
If you are with me, then I will go gladly unto [my] death and to my rest. Ah, how pleasing were my end, if your dear hands then shut my faithful eyes!
Bist du bei mir, geh ich mit Freuden zum Sterben und zu meiner Ruh. Ach, wie vergnügt wär so mein Ende, es drückten deine schönen Hände mir die getreuen Augen zu.
If you are with me, then I will go gladly unto [my] death and to my rest. Ah, how pleasing were my end, if your dear hands then shut my faithful eyes!