Wenn mein Stündlein vorhanden ist

Johann Michael Bach was second-uncle (and then posthumously) father-in-law of Johann Sebastian Bach, because he was the father of Bach's first wife Maria Barbara. He came (like almost any Bach) from a musical family, his father Heinrich Bach and his brother Johann Christoph Bach were both active organists and composers. He was born in Arnstadt and became the organist and town clerk of Gehren, where he lived until his death.

I recorded a beautiful chorale prelude on the hymn 'Wenn mein Stündlein vorhanden ist', which comes from the so called Neumeister Sammlung/Neumeister Collection. The registration on the Thurinigan Trost organ uses mostly string stops, which goes nicely with the text of this chorale:

Wenn mein Stündlein vorhanden ist
und ich soll fahrn mein Straße,
so gleit du mich, Herr Jesu Christ,
mit Hilf mich nicht verlasse.
Mein' Seel' an meinem letzten End'
befehl' ich, Herr, in deine Händ',
du woll'st sie wohl bewahren!