Mit Fried und Freud (Buxtehude)
Mit Fried und Freud and Klag-Lied | |
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by BuxWV 76 |
Mit Fried und Freud | |
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Catalogue | BuxWV 76a |
Year | 1671 |
Text | Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin |
Movements | 2 |
Vocal | soprano and bass |
Instrumental | organ or four strings and continuo |
Klag-Lied | |
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Catalogue | BuxWV 76b |
Year | 1674 |
Text | by the composer |
Vocal | soprano |
Instrumental | organ or two strings and continuo |
Mit Fried und Freud ("With peace and joy"),
History
In 1671, Buxtehude composed funeral music on the death of
Buxtehude's father Johann Buxtehude had died on 22 January 1674, having worked at St Olaf's, Helsingør, as an organist, and having moved to his son's household after the death of his wife in 1671 and after his own retirement, possibly in 1673.[1] The composer wrote Klag-Lied as an homage to his father, on a poem in seven stanzas which he possibly wrote himself.[3][5] Both works were probably performed at the funeral.[6]
Buxtehude published both works together the same year. He titled the bundle Fried-und Freudenreiche Hinfarth (Departure enriched by Peace and Joy).[1][6] It was one of very few publications of his work during his lifetime,[7] and J. G. Walther believed it to be the only one of "his many artful keyboard works" so to appear.[8] The beginning of the long title given on the title page[9] translates as
Departure enriched by Peace and Joy of devout old Simeon, on the occasion of the blessed Decease of Master JOHANNIS Buxtehude, in his life time well-respected, highly honourable, and ingenious, for 32 years Organist at the Church of St. Olaf in the royal City of Elsinore, who here at Luebeck, on 22 January in the Year 1674, in the 72nd Year of his Age, with Peace and Joy departed this Life of Anxieties and Alarms, called Home by his Redeemer...
Music
The first part of the funeral music, composed in 1671, is in two movements of counterpoint and development:
- Contrapunctus I & Evolutio
- Contrapunctus II & Evolutio
The score of the four-part setting in strict counterpoint does not indicate voices or instruments. It can be played on an organ, or by four instruments; and the
The seven stanzas of the Klag-Lied (or lamentation) are set, without any ritornellos, for soprano, two unspecified instruments and basso continuo.[6] The musicologist Kerala J. Snyder describes the text as "deeply personal in tone, and the sombre music reflects its grief".[3]
The scoring has been debated. While Walther assumed that the pieces were played on the organ, a manuscript in the
Selected recordings
- Greta De Reyghere, Ricercar Consort, Philippe Pierlot (1990)
- Jos van Immerseel(1994)
- Emma Kirkby, John Holloway, Manfredo Kraemer, Jaap ter Linden, Lars Ulrik Mortensen (1997)
- Opera Omnia XVII - Vocal music vol. 7, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir, Ton Koopman (2013)
References
- ^ ISBN 978-1-58-046253-2.
- ^ a b Otterstedt, Annette (2007). "Preface" (PDF). Edition Güntersberg. Retrieved 11 November 2014.
- ^ Naxos. Retrieved 9 November 2014.
- ^ Leaver, Robin A. (2007) Luther's Liturgical Music: Principles and Implications, p. 386
- ^ Allmusic. Retrieved 9 November 2014.
- ^ ISBN 978-2-21-363100-4.)
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link - ^ "D. Buxtehude, Mit Fried und Freud, Klag-Lied, BuxWV 76, with facsimile of the print of 1674, S+B+4Str". Edition Güntersberg. 2007. Retrieved 9 November 2014.
- ^ Snyder (1987), p. 134
- ^ Monatschrift für Gottesdienst und kirchliche Kunst volumes 12-13 (1907), p. 236