Mit Fried und Freud (Buxtehude)
("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 (Departure enriched by Peace and Joy) when he published it the same year. It is a bundle of two compositions, the earlier , BuxWV 76a, a setting of Luther's hymn composed in 1671 reflecting the death of Menno Hanneken, and the elegy (Song of mourning, lament), BuxWV 76b, an aria in seven stanzas. The incipit of the elegy, "", translates roughly to "Even if death must separate us". It is one of few compositions published during Buxtehude's lifetime. History In 1671, Buxtehude composed funeral music on the death of , a superintendent and minister at the Marienkirche in Lübeck, where Buxtehude performed his concert series, the Abendmusiken. 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. Buxtehude set Luther's hymn "", the German paraphrase of the Nunc dimittis, or Song of Simeon. Buxtehude's father Johann Buxtehude had died on 22 January 1674, having worked at St Olaf's, Helsingør,