With Fried and Freud (Buxtehude)

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Title page of the composition in two parts

Mit Fried und Freud , BuxWV 76, is a funeral music by Dieterich Buxtehude for his father, who died in 1674. The composer referred to it as "Fried- und Freudenreich Hinfarth" when he published it in the same year. In it he combined an earlier composition, Mit Fried und Freud (BuxWV 76a), which he had written in 1671 on the death of Menno Hanneken , with the Klag-Lied (BuxWV 76b), a song in seven stanzas, “Must death also deliver ". The work is one of the few that Buxtehude published during his lifetime.

history

Menno Hanneken

In 1671 Buxtehude composed funeral music on the occasion of the death of Menno Hanneken , who was superintendent and pastor at the Marienkirche in Lübeck , where Buxtehude performed his evening music. In 1670 Buxtehude entered a canon, Divertisons nous (BuxWV 124), into the album amicorum by Hanneken's son, which suggests good relations between him and the family. Buxtehude set Martin Luther's song " Mit Fried und Freud I drive away ", a German adaptation of the Nunc dimittis, to music .

In 1674 Buxtehude's father Johann Buxtehude died on January 22nd. He had worked as an organist in Helsingør , but had retired and moved in with his son after the death of his wife, possibly in 1673. The composer wrote the Klag-Lied in his honor, based on a poem in seven stanzas that he probably wrote himself .

Buxtehude published both works together in the same year under the title "Fried- und Freudenreich Hinfarth" by Ulrich Wettstein , one of the few prints during his lifetime.

music

The first part of the funeral music, composed in 1671, consists of two movements, both of which edit the chorale melody twice in artful counterpoint :

  • Contrapunctus I & Evolutio
  • Contrapunctus II & Evolutio

The four-part set contains no information about the cast. The music can be played by an organ or four string instruments. The cantus firmus , which appears in the soprano and bass, can be sung. The soprano begins in Contrapunctus I, the bass takes over the second verse in Evolutio, while the soprano adds the bass line of the first verse and alto and tenor also swap voices. Contrapunctus II contains even more complex counterpoint technique that appears mirrored in Evolutio II. The deliberate demonstration of compositional techniques was compared to Johann Sebastian Bach's later art of fugue .

The seven stanzas of the Klag-Lied are composed, without instrumental preludes or interludes, for soprano, two unspecified string instruments and basso continuo . The musicologist and Buxtehude specialist Kerala J. Snyder describes the text as deeply personal and well captured in the painful music ("deeply personal in tone, and the sombre music reflects its grief").

The only picture of the composer Dieterich Buxtehude , depicting him as a viola player from domestic music scene by Johannes Voorhout (1674)

While Johann Gottfried Walther assumed that the pieces were intended for the organ, a manuscript from the Dübensammlung mentions “viole” ( viola da gamba ), from which it can be concluded that the music was also played by a viol consort or violins and viols can be. The viol was often associated with funeral music in Germany, for example a five-part viol consort only plays the climax of Buxtehude's Membra Jesu nostri , and a viol accompanies the aria Es ist vollbracht in Bach's St. John Passion .

Text of the lament

1.
Does death have to deliver /
What no case can deliver?
Does he have to wriggle out of me too /
Who sticks to my heart?
Oh! the
dreary parting of the fathers Machet turned into bitter suffering;
If one removes the heart from our chest,
such a thing hurts more than fatally.

2.
Our hearts are the fathers /
They cover what hurts us;
You are our sighing prayers
For what no child does not think /
You recognize these sides
and the vanities of the earth;
Therefore, oh, oh, let go of the vain,
the Most High thinks dear and great.

3. My lord father has
also been such to me
/ who
has read a thousand sea
blessings for me before the rich heavenly door.
By imploring him / teaching him
and his care, worshiping me
daily with pleasure / those who are
still ready for me.

4.
This one is now torn from me /
Oh! how severe the pain is
that I must now miss him / he
was the heart of my heart!
This should now be my consolation /
Because I live on earth /
That I
want to be mindful of lust and pain Danckbahr.

5.
And that he will now receive him / whom
he loves / his hoard:
I expect yours to ask.
This was his last worth.
His desire is satisfied /
all desire to be is fulfilled.
JESUS ​​rejoices abundance
I / as son / must grant Him.

6.
He now plays the joy songs
Auff the Himmels-Lust-Clavier /
Since the angels
sing every now and then with a sweet ornament.
Here is our song of sorrow.
Black notes of sadness. Mixture
with a lot of crosses / there
everything is refreshed with lust.

7.
Sleep well / you beloved,
live well / you soul, soul;
I your son / now
deeply saddened Write on your grave, Hell:
Here lies the playing given Gods
who have delighted: That is why
his spirit is happy
To the choir of heaven.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Kerala J. Snyder: Dieterich Buxtehude. Organist in Lübeck ( English ). Schirmer Books, New York 1987, ISBN 9781580462532 , p. 47.
  2. ↑ a b Annette Otterstedt: Foreword . Edition Güntersberg . 2007. Retrieved November 11, 2014.
  3. ↑ a b c Kerala J. Snyder: Dieterich Buxtehude: A Sketch of his Life ( English ) Naxos. Retrieved November 9, 2014.
  4. ↑ a b Joseph Stevenson: Fried- und Freudenreichen Hinfahrt, cantata in 2 sections for SB voices, instruments & continuo, BuxWV 76 ( English ). Allmusic , (Accessed November 9, 2014).
  5. ↑ a b Gilles Cantagre: Dietrich Buxtehude ( French ) 2006, ISBN 978-2213631004 , p. 508.
  6. ↑ a b D. Buxtehude, With Fried and Freud, Klag-Lied, BuxWV 76, with facsimile of the first printing from 1674, S + B + 4Str . Edition Güntersberg. 2007. Retrieved November 9, 2014.
  7. ↑ Spitta: probably a misprint for "to"
  8. ↑ Spitta: It will be possible to read “Schwarzer”.