Buxtehude was organist and Werkmeister (administrator of the church's finances) at the Marienkirche in Lübeck, where he performed his concert series, the Abendmusiken.
[1] He possibly performed it as part of the Abendmusiken, a concert series begun by his predecessor, Franz Tunder, and which Buxtehude brought to fame.
This was accepted by scholars at the time, including Friedrich Blume who described it as such in the Buxtehude entry for the 1952 edition of Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart.
Allegorical figures are the Göttliche Stimme (divine voice) and the vices of avarice, frivolity and arrogance.
[4] Das jüngste Gericht was recorded in 2006 as part of Buxtehude's complete works, Opera Omnia, by the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir conducted by Ton Koopman,[5] with soloists Caroline Stam, Orlanda Velez Isidro, Johannette Zomer, Robin Blaze, Andreas Karasiak and Klaus Mertens.