Johann Sebastian Bach

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BWV 315
Title Yield to contentment and be quiet
Composed Unknown
Scoring

Choir for 4 voices
Movements Chorale: Yield to contentment and be quiet
Category Chorale
Event -
Author of text J. S. Bach 1725
Text
Chorale: Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass


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 Music library, Leipzig; Highschool for Music, Berlin

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