Johann Sebastian Bach based his chorale cantata Meinen Jesum laß ich nicht, BWV 124 on the first melody by Andreas Hammerschmidt (Zahn No.

The hymn appears, with Ulich's tune, in the Protestant hymnal Evangelisches Gesangbuch as EG 402, in modernized German as "Meinen Jesus lass ich nicht".

[2] It was prompted by the death of John George I, Elector of Saxony on 8 October 1656, who had repeated the first line of the text and its main idea in conversations with his minister on his deathbed.

Johann Sebastian Bach used the hymn with this melody several times, notably in his chorale cantata Meinen Jesum laß ich nicht, BWV 124, and as a closing movement of Part I in an early version of his St Matthew Passion.

[6] Max Reger based his chorale cantata Meinen Jesum laß ich nicht for soprano, choir, violin, viola and organ and ensemble in 1906 on Ulich's melody.