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 Mendelssohn. The "halo effect" does not accompany the last words of this person, whose lines and those of the Evangelist are taken from Scripture. For 10 points, name this person whom the English title of a Bach chorale calls the "Joy of Man's Desiring." ■END■
ANSWER: Jesus Christ [or Christ; or Jesu; or Vox Christi; or "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring"; or "Jesu bleibet meine Freude"; or "Jesus Remains my Joy"; or Membra Jesu Nostri; or Limbs Most Holy of Our Suffering Jesus] [clues are from Bach's St. Matthew Passion, "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring,' and Membra Jesu Nostri]
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