Johann Sebastian Bach

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BWV 511
Title Yield to contentment and be quiet
Composed 1727, Leipzig
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Movements Aria: Yield to contentment and be quiet
Category Spiritual Arias and Songs (Notenbuch of Anna Magdalena Bach)
Event -
Author of text Paul Gerhardt 1666
Text
Aria


Yield to contentment and be quiet
In the God of thine existence.
In him rests ev'ry joy's abundance,
Vain without him is thy striving.
He is thy wellspring and thy sunlight,
Each day he brightens for thy pleasure.
Yield to contentment.

Manuscript Notenbuch der Anna Magdalena Bach 1733/1734

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