Original source: Chorale, Meines Lebens letzte Zeit, BWV 381 Chorale Text:Meines Lebens letzte Zeit*, Gotha 1726 Tune:Meines Lebens letzte Zeit, Gotha 1726 (Zahn 6380) First Performance: Unknown Appearance in Early Collections (Key):
Riemenschneider 346;
Breitkopf 345;
AmB 46II p.103;
Schemelli BWV 488* (see note below)
Other Harmonizations: None
Notes
This chorale survives without text. The text that appears here is the one provided by editors of the Bach Gesellschaft Ausgabe (BGA).
This setting is a four–part realization of a two–part chorale (with thoroughbass figures) from the Schemelli Gesangbuch, BWV 488. (See Chorale No.63 on p.224 of NBA III/2.1) For a full listing of four–part realizations of two–part Schemelli chorales, visit Schemelli Realizations.