Aria from the ‘Funeral Music’ for Leopold (Prince of Anhalt-Köthen)
BWV 244a (second part, first aria)
– The prince had died at the age of 33;
– The mourners’ pray: Spare us the fate of an untimely death.
| Erhalte mich, Mein Gott, in der Hälfte meiner Tage! Schone doch, Meiner Seele fällt das Joch Jämmerlich. Erhalte mich, Gott, In der Hälfte meiner Tage. | Preserve me, my God, in the midst of my days! Spare me yet, when upon my soul the yoke falls piteously. Preserve me, my God, in the midst of my days! |