Bist du bei mir

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]1 Hände
mir die getreuen Augen zu!

by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist , published 1725

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

misattributed to Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) and by Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel (1690-1749) , "Bist du bei mir"
by Gerard Bunk (1888-1958) , "Bist du bei mir", subtitle: "Arie im alten Stile", op. 20b (1907/45?). [mezzo-soprano or soprano and string orchestra or string quintet]

ENG English (Emily Ezust)
SPA Spanish (Aminta Iriarte)
ITA Italian (Davide Bocelli)

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If you are with me

If you are with me, then I will gladly go
to [my] death and to my rest.
Ah, how pleasant would my end be,
if your dear, fair hands shut
my faithful eyes!

Translation from German to English copyright © by Emily Ezust, emily (AT) lieder (DOT) net, http://www.lieder.net/

a text in German by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist , published 1725 SPA ITA

Text added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.