Also hat Gott die Welt geliebt, BWV 68 (Johann Sebastian Bach)

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Editor: David Newman (added 2008-07-08).   Score information: Letter, 5 pages, 126 kbytes       Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Cross posting by Art Song Central - File Sizes: PDF: 126 KB. Includes a piano accompaniment of the arrangement that truncates the closing ritornello of the original aria..

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Title: Mein gläubiges Herze
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

Number of voices: 1v   Voicing: Solo Soprano
Genre: Sacred, Aria

Language: German
Instruments: Oboe, Violin, Violoncello Piccolo, Basso continuo
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Description: This famous soprano aria constitutes the second movement of Cantata BWV 68, Also hat Gott die Welt geliebt, and the music derives from the secular Cantata BWV 208, Was mir behagt, ist nur die muntre Jagd.

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Original text and translations

German text

Mein gläubiges Herze,

Frohlocke, sing, scherze,

Dein Jesus ist da!

Weg Jammer, weg Klagen,

Ich will euch nur sagen:

Mein Jesus ist nah.