In 1717–18 Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel was for a
short time court Kapellmeister in Bayreuth. There his
opera Diomedes, a.k.a. Die triumphierende Unschuld (the
triumphant innocence), was premiered on 16 Nov. 1718.
Apart from a few arias the music of this opera is lost.
A version for soprano, strings and continuo of its aria
"Bist du bei mir" survives in an
18th-century manuscript owned by the Singakademie in
Berlin (See Facsimile Aria 4 p. 7:
http://hz.imslp.info/files/imglnks/u...(+)
In 1717–18 Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel was for a
short time court Kapellmeister in Bayreuth. There his
opera Diomedes, a.k.a. Die triumphierende Unschuld (the
triumphant innocence), was premiered on 16 Nov. 1718.
Apart from a few arias the music of this opera is lost.
A version for soprano, strings and continuo of its aria
"Bist du bei mir" survives in an
18th-century manuscript owned by the Singakademie in
Berlin (See Facsimile Aria 4 p. 7:
http://hz.imslp.info/files/imglnks/usimg/0/02/IMSLP4264
46-PMLP178856-diomedes.pdf).
A version for voice and continuo of this aria is among
the pieces Anna Magdalena Bach wrote down as no. 25 in
her notebook from 1725. That version is slightly
modified in its continuo part as given here.
and is known as BWV 508.
