Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel
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Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel was a German composer of the Baroque era.
Stölzel composed Die Freuden-Ernde for the 48th birthday of Magdalena Augusta, the wife of his employer Duke Frederick II, (Gotha, 23 October 1727)
Early 18th-century manuscript copy of the "Traversa" part of Melchior Hoffmann's 1707 Magnificat in A minor (BWV Anh. 21, formerly attributed to Bach): this copy was likely written by a young Stölzel.
Sondershausen Palace and Market Square
Gotha, with Schloss Friedenstein, c. 1730
Bist du bei mir
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"Bist du bei mir, geh ich mit Freuden" 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
Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel
…were printed for the Leipzig church services in that period. Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach: some time after 1733–34 Anna Magdalena Bach noted "Bist du bei mir", BWV 508, based on the aria "Bist du bei mir geh ich mit Freuden" from Stölzel's opera Diomedes, in her notebook. For a long time the music of this…
Blanche Marchesi recorded "Bist du bei mir" in 1906.