On five records under the batons of Lehmann, Furtwangler, Klemperer, Karajan, and Richter, this role was portrayed by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. This person titles a song most often performed in the 1926 transcription by Myra Hess. Aspects of this person title each of the seven parts of a cycle by Dietrich Buxtehude, (buk-stuh-HOO-duh) based on the same Latin poem as the Paul Gerhardt song quoted throughout a composition that highlights this man's words with sustained notes from the string section. Eduard Devrient requested the central role of this person for an 1829 Berlin revival under Felix (-5[1])Mendelssohn. The ■END■ (-5[1])