Der Friede sei mit dir, BWV 158

Der Friede sei mit dir (Peace be with you), BWV 158, is one of the shortest of the cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach and features a bass soloist. It survives as a cantata for the third day of Easter but might be a fragment of a work originally written for Purification. Given this background, and the fact that it was copied by Christian Friedrich Penzel, one of Bach's last students, there is a confusing variety of proposed composition dates. It may date back to Bach's Weimar period,[1] although a date as late as 1735 has been suggested.[2]

  1. ^ Lutheran Church Year / Dates of "Osterdienstag" (Easter Tuesday, 3rd Day of Easter)
  2. ^ David Schulenberg, "Der Friede sei mit dir" in Oxford Composer Companion: J. S. Bach ed. Malcolm Boyd

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