Mit Fried und Freud (Buxtehude)

Mit Fried und Freud ("With peace and joy"), BuxWV 76, is the common name for a piece of funeral music composed by Dieterich Buxtehude as an homage to his father in 1674.

The composer named the work Fried- und Freudenreiche Hinfarth (Departure enriched by Peace and Joy) when he published it the same year.

It is a bundle of two compositions, the earlier Mit Fried und Freud, BuxWV 76a, a setting of Luther's hymn Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin composed in 1671 reflecting the death of Menno Hanneken, and the elegy Klag-Lied (Song of mourning, lament), BuxWV 76b, an aria in seven stanzas.

Buxtehude composed a canon, Divertisons nous (BuxWV 124), written in an album of Menno's son and dated 1670, showing that he had good relations with the Hanneken family.

[2] Buxtehude set Luther's hymn "Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin",[3] the German paraphrase of the Nunc dimittis, or Song of Simeon.

Buxtehude, playing a viol , from A musical party by Johannes Voorhout (1674)